configure error

[Mike Stump]

> To: Joe Buck <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com>
> Cc: kth@srv.net (Kevin Handy), gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Date: 07 Sep 2000 00:13:42 -0300

> True, but this just can't be done without a significant effort.

That is a shame.  Historically, this hasn't been an issue or a
problem, it always just worked.  It is unfortunate, if people can't be
bothered to keep it working.  :-(

> As soon as you configure some package in the source tree, autoconf
> will complain if you try to run configure on the same srcdir from a
> different builddir, which is the case when configuring the target
> library

Since you seem to have a specific instance in mind, could you let me
know what the library is.