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.



in my experience, *some* files remain being generated
with in the source directory.  i have taken to updating
src/gnu with `cvs update -I\! -ICVS' after using it for
other reasons (not that _ALL_ of them are possible any
more.  grrr).


.mrg.