make reconfigure status

[Alan Snyder]

In case this is useful...

I don’t know what the status is of “make reconfigure”, but I suspect it is unsupported because I see no mention of it in the build doc.

However:

* It still exists

* It is mentioned in the output of make

* It failed when I tried to use it (on macOS 10.15.5)

The error has something to do with choosing a configuration output directory. Somehow it winds up connected to my home directory and then complains about it.

I had no trouble running “bash configure”.


Please rerun configure! Easiest way to do this is by running
'make reconfigure'.


checking where to store configuration... in current directory
configure: Current directory is /Users/alan.
configure: Since this is not the source root, configure will output the configuration here
configure: (as opposed to creating a configuration in <src_root>/build/<conf-name>).
configure: However, this directory is not empty. This is not allowed, since it could
configure: seriously mess up just about everything.
configure: Try 'cd /Volumes/A/JDK/client2' and restart configure
configure: (or create a new empty directory and cd to it).
configure: error: Will not continue creating configuration in /Users/alan
/Users/alan/configure-support/generated-configure.sh: line 82: 5: Bad file descriptor
configure exiting with result code 1
make[1]: *** [reconfigure] Error 1
make: *** [reconfigure] Error 2