Re: Compile error prime.cc

[Andrew Haley <aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk>]

> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:55:42 +0200
> From: Holger Veit <Holger.Veit@gmd.de>
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 09:48:24AM -0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > 
> > Before getting deep into investigating this, I have one question:
> > you're not trying to configure and build in the source directory, are
> > you?  Don't do that.  For happiness, build in a separate build
> > directory.
> 
> Ah, sorry, I actually did that. I've compiled so many apps by simply
> unpacking the stuff somewhere, going into that dir and running configure.
> This for instance also holds for egcs. Why was this scheme changed here?

Well, it wasn't a deliberate design decision as far as I know.
However, building in the sorce directory has long been deprecated, and
as no-one at Cygnus ever does this we weren't caught by the problem.
We should add an error message in this case, I suppose.

However, I recommend that you get out of the habit of building in the
source directory, as it's likely that other software will also cease
to support it.

Andrew.