Building 7.1.2 issue.

I've a minor issue with building 7.1.[12] and I was wondering if anyone's
addressed it yet (that anyone knows of...)

> The problem at hand is that you must be at the top of the source
> tree to build 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 and you cannot do it from a
> "staging" directory separate from it. This works for MOST of
> the package but not for a small bit of it.
>
> Example.
> /home/pgsql> ls
> postgresql-7.1.2.tar.gz
> postgresql-7.1.2/
> Stage/
>
> To build the code, you must be in postgresql-7.1.2 and you
> cannot be in Stage.

Thanks for all your time.