[SDL] SDL-2.0: HG configure: error

[Marcus von Appen]

On, Sat May 12, 2012, greno wrote:

> When we're checking out SDL-2.0 from HG it would be nice if we could not have this error about generated header files.
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> Code:
> configure: error:
> *** When building from Mercurial you should configure and build in a
>     separate directory so you don't clobber SDL_config.h, SDL_revision.h
>
>
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> Generated files generally should not be checked into the VCS.
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> Right now I have to hack the configure to allow the build.
>
> .
>

Read the message carefully, afterwards create e.g. a directory named
build, change into it and call configure from there

~/devel/SDL# mkdir build
~/devel/SDL# cd build
~/devel/SDL/build# ../configure
...

and life is good again :-).

Regards
Marcus
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