It's also worth mentioning that a nice way to avoid this problem is:
	cd /somewhere/anywhere
	/usr/src/gnu/dist/configure ...
That will create all the files outside of /usr/src/gnu/dist
so that gnu/dist stays unmodified, and can even be used as a
common source area for building different configurations.

Just FYI.
Gordon

Todd Vierling writes:
 > On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
 > 
 > : > Actually, the bit of the log you included showed it being built, but
 > : > placed in the wrong directory; over in ...dist/gcc/.  Makefile error?
 > : 
 > : Thanks.  I didn't even notice that, with the filename buried in all
 > : that output.  I just copied the files into the right place.  If this
 > : is some strange bootstrapping problem, perhaps this will do the trick.
 > 
 > You built a cross toolchain directly in src/tgnu/dist and did not "make
 > distclean" before building using the NetBSD makefiles.
 > 
 > Do:
 > 
 > > cd /usr/src/gnu/dist/gcc
 > > make distclean
 > > cd ../../usr.bin/egcs
 > > make cleandir
 > 
 > before your next build attempt.
 > 
 > -- 
 > -- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)
 >