Setting the build directory expost facto.

[Steven T. Hatton]

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:16 pm, Caleb Tennis wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2003 11:50 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> > I  built a project, and then decided to change the setup so the build
> > took place in <project root>/build rather than <project root>/src.  When
> > I tried to reconfigure I got this:
> >
> > configure:1809: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
> > configure:1829: result: yes
> > configure:1841: error: source directory already configured; run "make
> > distclean" there first
>
> Be sure to rerun automake and friends, and do a "make -f Makefile.cvs" if
> your project supports it.  Then, retry "configure"
>
> Caleb

I found I 'had to' blow away all the configure stuff in <project root> and 
then do the automake stuff.  I'm not sure of all that's going on.  I just had 
a problem compiling, and I closed gideon and restarted.  Now it compiles 
fine. <shrug>

STH