KDevelop project stuck

After building an application in Debug configuration, switching to optimized has corrupted the project so that it will no longer build.

SUSE 10.1, KDevelop 3.3.3, KDE 3.5.1

RESOLVED: A reply in a forum indicated that there is a known bug with the default configuration that leaves a config.status around that sabotages the entire project. The recovery is to delete all the config.status files in the project and then avoid use of the default configuration.

Developed the program under the debug configuration and then tried to switch to default or optimized configuration. Tried many combinations to try to get it working again, but all BUILD options give errors ending with makedistclean.

such as :
cd '/home/darrell/Development/siteprobe' && WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" gmake -f Makefile.cvs && cd '/home/darrell/Development/siteprobe/optimized' && CXXFLAGS="-O2 -g0" "/home/darrell/Development/siteprobe/configure" && cd '/home/darrell/Development/siteprobe/optimized' && WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5="1" WANT_AUTOMAKE_1_6="1" gmake
This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
This will be deleted before making the distribution

*** automake (GNU automake) 1.9.6 found.
*** Creating acinclude.m4
*** Creating list of subdirectories
cd . && gmake -f admin/Makefile.common subdirs
*** Creating configure.files
*** Creating configure.in
cd . && gmake -f admin/Makefile.common configure.in ;
*** Creating aclocal.m4
*** Creating configure
*** Creating config.h template
*** Creating Makefile templates
*** Postprocessing Makefile templates
*** Creating date/time stamp
*** Finished
Don't forget to run ./configure
If you haven't done so in a while, run ./configure --help
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
configure: error: source directory already configured; run "make distclean" there first
*** Exited with status: 1 ***

So, apparently the project configuraiton has been corrupted and don’t know the way back to sanity.
Archive of the entire project here as a tar.gz
Siteprobe archive

Update: Find the current version of the project here.

thanks,
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  1. RESOLVED: A reply in a forum indicated that there is a known bug with the default configuration that leaves a config.status around that sabotages the entire project. The recovery is to delete all the config.status files in the project and then avoid use of the default configuration.

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