Note: this is a bug in 2.0.55 but that option wasn't available on the bugzilla form. I usually build projects with the source as read-only, and use a separate directory for building. But httpd 2.0.55 tries to create a file in the source tree . The error message output by 'make' was: /bin/sh: line 1: /var/src/httpd-2.0.55/srclib/pcre/chartables.c: No such file or directory Before that it had just done a large command with redirection to chartables.c . My configure line was: ../../src/httpd-2.0.55/configure --enable-so --enable-deflate --enable-ssl --enable-speling --enable-rewrite I could work around the problem by setting srclib/pcre in the source tree to be writable by the user doing the building.
Created attachment 21440 [details] A minor change to Makefile.in in srclib/pcre This problem can be fixed by removing the "$(srcdir)/" prefix for chartables.c from Makefile.in in srclib/pcre
This seems superficially similar to #34535, but concerns a different set of files.
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