Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <718D38CAB6E0D011B2C90060970C28A57E17E4@exchangeserver.pixelpower.com> From: David Korn To: "'mohammad Saleem'" , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, crossgcc AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: RE: How to re-configure Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:53:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >Hi all, > > By misstake I configured binutils at wrong place and now I want to run >configure script again from another directory. > When I do that I get the following message: > > > ********************************************* > Configuring for a i686-pc-cygwin32 host. > *** Cannot configure here in "/build/binutils" when >"/source/binutils-2.10" is currently configured. >bash-2.02$ >*************************************** > >How can I solve this problem? Hi Mohammad, I haven't seen that error message myself, but I think what it's trying to tell you is that you ran the configure command in the source directory, and it's created some auto-generated files in the source tree; if you were to try and configure in a separate build directory now, it would autogenerate the needed files in that directory, but then the ones in the main source tree would override them, so it wouldn't work. In other words, doing a configure command in the source directory has modified the source directory so that when you build it you'll get the configuration you first chose, no matter what. To get it back the way it was before, you could either search the source tree for any files with a timestamp matching the time when you configured, and delete them, but probably the quickest simplest and most reliable solutions would just be to delete the source tree and unpack the binutils tar.gz again. I hope you kept it around after you unpacked it the first time! If you didn't, then have a go by deleting the recent files that were created when you ran configure, or download it again if you have a fast enough net connection for that to be easy. DaveK -- " So far, science's crowning achievement, the Atomic Bomb, has not even been able to alleviate the misery and torture of endless centuries of world poverty." - George Hammond, self-proclaimed discoverer of the scientific proof of god. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/