How did you get that to work? From the distributed configure script:
SRCDIR_PARENT=`pwd`
This will be my obj dir.
if test ! -r src/config/Makefile.${AFS_SYSNAME}.in ; then
{ echo "configure: error: no source file src/config/Makefile.${AFS_SYSNAME}.in" 1>&2; exit 1; }
fi
This will be relative my obj dir and definitely exit 1.
Harald.