./configure question/problem

Virtuality · 01-11-2008, 09:46 PM

I was compiling Glibc

I did

# cd /usr/src/glibc-2.7
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/

It said I must provide a separate build directory. So I did 'cd..' then
# /usr/src/glibc-2.7/configure --prefix=/usr/local/

And it worked, then it gave me an error saying I shouldn't build to /usr/local/ or it can make my system unstable and I can bypass with --disable-sanity-checks

So I made a folder /usr/src/glibc-2.7-build/ and did

# usr/src/glibc-2.7/configure --prefix=/usr/src/glibc-2.7-build/

And it compiled fine.

Then I did 'make' from the glibc-2.7 directory, and I tried '/usr/src/glibc-2.7/make --prefix=/usr/src/glibc-2.7-build/' and any possible variation including running it from the glibc-2.7-build directory which is empty and it always gave the error:

Code:

Makeconfig:84: sysdeps/../config.make: No such file or directory
The GNU C library has not been configured.
Run `configure' to configure it before building.
Try `configure --help' for more details.
make: Failed to remake makefile `sysdeps/../config.make'.

My questions are:
1) Why won't it compile without me leaving the directory as in my first example?
2) How do I run 'make' after configuring to a prefix

Thanks for help

jailbait · 01-11-2008, 10:12 PM

You could try:

cd /usr/src/glibc-2.7-build/
make

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Steve Stites

Virtuality · 01-11-2008, 10:17 PM

I did, the directory is empty, all it says is:

Code:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Okay fixed; all I had to do with 'cd /usr/src/glibc-2.7-build/' and then run '/usr/src/glibc-2.7/configure --prefix=/usr/src/glibc-2.7-build/' and then 'make'.