HI everyone

First of all hello to everyone this is my first question in this forum. I have a problem when trying to follow the chapter 5.12 of the LFS book. When i try to make the binutils 2.16.1 source i receive the following error:

checking for style of include used by make... GNU
configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make distclean" there first
make: *** [configure bfd] Error 1

I already make the "make-distclean" but i still receive the same error. Is there something that i forgot or something that i made wrong?. Is there anyway to manually get rid of this error?. I was trying to look at google but i have no luck.

Thanks a lot for your help and best regards

PhoenixzeroX

Hi again

nevermind...i finally found what was the source of my problem. My problem was that i was running the "make distclean" command in the wrong binutils folder. Sorry for this question.

Anyway. Thank you for everyone!!

PhoenixzeroX

SO, This error can be resolve by running "make distclean" into the directory of binutils-2.22 instead of binutils-buil

Thanks
Ahmed Ebaid

Hi

What is the problem you are getting this is a very old post

i got the same error encountered by the user which is
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make distclean" there first
make: *** [configure bfd] Error 1

and I did resolve it already by running make distclean at the directory binutils-2.22 instead of binutils-build.

I'm mentioning this here as the other user just mentioned that he was running the make distclean in a different directory and I did like to be more specific.

Thanks

Ahmed