HP problems

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 9711050046.AA06620@negril.msrce.howard.edu >you write:
  > I was trying to build egcs on an hp for the people in the digital
  > systems lab  but a './configure' 'make bootstrap' didn't quite do
  > the trick (see below).
I wonder if you'd get more success if you configured in a separate
directory than your sources live.  ie

tar xf egcs-blah.tar.gz

mkdir obj
cd obj
../egcs-blah/configure


The other possibility would be an buried implicit gnu-make assumption
in texinfo...

jeff