One more try for my patch

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < m0y5GmN-00058KC@ocean.lucon.org >you write:
  > Hi,
  > 
  > This is my old patch which handles absolute pathname and pathname
  > relative to the build directory for file link. It is for the toplevel
  > configure.
Your patch has not been lost.  I'm just concentrating on more important
issues like the 1.0.2 stuff.

jeff