It means configure was already run inside the toplevel src directory, so
that it cannot do off-the-tree build anymore.
2012/1/2 Bill Will <willettw...@gmail.com>
> when I run: ../configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --with-
> browser-plugins-dir=/usr/lib64/browser-plugins
> I get:
> [root@localhost build]# ../configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
> --with-browser-plugins-dir=/usr/lib64/browser-plugins
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
> checking for suffix of executables...
> checking for suffix of object files... o
> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
> checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
> checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
> checking if -fstack-protector and -fstack-protector-all are
> supported.... yes
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
> configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make
> distclean" there first
> Where does it want me to run "make distclean"? where is There?
> since this tar.bz2 file was put in Downloads, I assume that is where
> it is suppose to be when I ./configure ?
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