On 8/17/07, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tijnema wrote these words on 08/16/07 17:25 CST: > > > Well, you need to be in that directory to be able to run configure, > > make and all other instructions ;-) > > Technically, that is not true. With most packages (properly packaged > ones anyway), you can run the build commands from anywhere you like. > You don't have to be in the source tree directory. > > -- > Randy
Not with the instructions "copy-and-pasted" from the book ;) And btw, it will give a lot of trouble :P it will overwrite each makefile, log files and build files from the previous package etc, ending up with one big directory of 1000s of .o files ... Tijnema -- If this is a mailing list: DO NOT TOP POST! why?: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html Vote for PHP Color Coding in Gmail! -> http://gpcc.tijnema.info -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
