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Re: configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix

Thanks Andrew, that is exactly what I did, although I was expecting
configure to be smart enough to use that trick on my behalf.

On 28/05/06, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu> wrote:

On May 28, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Manuel LÃpez-IbÃÃez wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Doesn't autotools support relative paths in configure?

The reason why you cannot pass relative paths for --prefix is because
--prefix is passed
down to all of the makefiles and others which is going to have the
wrong prefix.

Just use an absolute path constructed with `pwd`/...... .

-- Pinski
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