Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] build broken for $srcdir != $builddir

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From: Tim Potter <tpot@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:35:40 +1100
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:20:42AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:43:19AM +0100, Bernd Becker wrote:
> > I think the problem is the following:
> > Gerald created a new directory packaging/rpm/SPECS in CVS.
> > If you are updating you working copy with "cvs update" or
> > "cvs update -P" only, the new directory won't be created.
> > You need to call "cvs update" with the "-d" option and it will
> > get the SPECS directory and the files therein.
> 
> And you may also need to re-run "autogen.sh" to generate
> "packaging/rpm/SPECS/Makefile.in".

How embarassing.  Rerunning autogen.sh did the trick.  I've fallen for 
the cvs update -P trick too many times before.  (-:


Thanks everyone,

Tim.