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RE: dejagnu "already configured"?
- From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs at dmu dot ac dot uk>
- To: Dave Korn <dk at artimi dot com>
- Cc: "'Binutils list'" <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:38:23 +0000 (WET)
- Subject: RE: dejagnu "already configured"?
- References: <NUTMEGbJxGL91TjXFrf000001bd@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: binutils-owner On Behalf Of Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng
>
> > Is there anything I have missed here?
>
> Yep: from http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/binutils-cvs-failure.txt
>
> -----snip-----
> + gmake distclean
> gmake: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.
> -----snip-----
>
> >Why is that already
> > configured when I did a make distclean and remove the build
> > directory completely before re-writing it?
>
> Because the distclean never happened, because you were in the wrong
> directory when you tried to run it. I extracted just the commands from your
> textfile using grep, to make it clearer:
[...]
> + gmake distclean
> -----snip-----
>
> Ooops! We're still in the source dir!
[...]
>
> But this won't remove the generated files from the source tree. Look at
> the lines beginning '?' in the cvs output.
Oh, I see. I did that originally when I was doing the build in the
source tree, which I'm not now. I hadn't noticed that building in
./build wrote anything to ./src. Thank you.
>
>
> cheers,
> DaveK
Hugh