On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 11:00:40AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > >Angelo Graziosi wrote: > > > >> ./configure --prefix=${prefix_dir} \ > > > >According to the documentation you should not do this (build in the same > >dir as the source.) > > This is just less tested, not unsupported. If people report bugs > related to "./configure" builds, we'll (I'll) be happy to fix them.
As a practical matter it is unsupported (because anytime anyone does it and has a problem, we tell them "don't do that, build in a different directory", we don't jump through hoops to diagnose and fix their issue). But if you want to fix it, great.