../configure fails

[Clifford Beshers <beshers@cs.columbia.edu>]

I'm installing normal scsh-0.4.4 on Solaris, using GNU make.

beshers@zippy>> uname -a
SunOS zippy.cs.columbia.edu 5.5.1 Generic sun4m
beshers@zippy>> whence make
/usr/local/gnu/bin/make
beshers@zippy>> 

Everything went fine for:

   ./configure ...
   make

What did not work was my attempt to build multiple architectures in
separate directories.

   mkdir sun4_sos5
   cd sun4_sos5
   ../configure ...

First, I got this error message from configure:

    creating Makefile
    mkdir: cannot make directory `scsh/regexp': No such file or directory
    creating scsh/regexp/Makefile
    ./config.status: scsh/regexp/Makefile: cannot create

I created the directory sun4_sos5/scsh/regexp, and configure finished.

Then make complained because scsh/machine was a symlink to ../solaris,
not ./solaris.  I fixed that.

Then, make failed to find the ./cig directory, at which point I gave
up.

I concluded that the INSTALL file is the standard one for configure,
and that you had probably never used this option, so I stopped.
If you expected this to work, I'm reporting that it didn't.  If you
didn't expect it to work, I'm not.

Sincerely,

Cliff

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Clifford Beshers                     Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab
beshers@cs.columbia.edu                         Department of Computer Science
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~beshers                        Columbia University