Re: make distclean breaks "later "configure && makes"", i.e., removes a file in distro that a build needs (cannot process parse.y)

[Michael Felt]

I'll start all over again - using the following structure:

cd dist; wget distro..tar.gz

cd ../src; gzip -dc ../dist/distro.tar.gz | tar xf -

mkdir ../distro; cd ../distro

../src/distro/configure --arguments; make; make distclean

../src/distro/configure --arguments; make

As I have not been build OOT, maybe this fixes it - I forget why I am 
not building OOT. Maybe because I was not being handy when having to 
update a source tree with a patch.

IF above works - I'll say "my mistake", if not - might still be my 
mistake, but not one I can figure out.



On 2/14/2018 4:32 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> There is code in the Makefile that attempts to detect when the build and
> source directories are not the same, and removes y.tab.[ch] from the build
> directory when they are not. The problem is that when you run
> `./configure', the source directory gets set to `.' and the build directory
> gets set to the absolute pathname.  Those don't compare as equal, and the
> files get removed.
>
> I could solve that problem with a short `same_dir' script, but maybe
> there's an easier way.