From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher Faylor)
Subject: Re: make b20alpha
28 Sep 1998 06:12:57 -0700
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To: Corinna Vinschen <corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de>,
        cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com

On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 09:59:50PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>I have configured the b20alpha in common parent directory with
>(not the first try)
>
>	./configure --build=i386-pc-cygwin32
>
>then I have started make.
>
>make stopped with following error:
>-------- snip ---------
>make[1]: *** No rule to make target `.././configure.host', needed by
>`config.status'.  Stop.
>make: *** [configure-target-newlib] Error 1
>-------- snip ---------

I just fixed something in configure here but obviously there are still
problems if you try to build in the same directory as the sources.  I
hadn't checked that.

This seems to work around the problem (in the newlib directory):

../configure -v --build=i386-pc-cygwin32 --srcdir=`pwd`

Another "solution" would be to do your builds in a separate directory
from your sources.  Apparently configure is confused when it sees that
srcdir == '.'.

I'll try to have this fixed in time for the real B20 release.  I'm glad
you caught this because this will also affect our customers.

-chris