[Patch] Fixup more relative directories when building --enable-debug

[Phil Edwards]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:03:24PM -0400, Brad Spencer wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:27:08PM -0600, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > 
> > >I'm finally getting a chance to try out the new --enable-debug, and I
> > >ran into a snag when compiling off the cvs trunk.  Some of the errors
> > >are shown below.
> > 
> > Huh. How are you configuring? Are you using separate build and src
> > directories? (Just curious)
> 
> Yes, completely as usual.  It struck me as odd that it didn't work.
> My path to configure starts with "../", though.  Perhaps that's it?

I've been seeing recent complaints about odd relative paths being generated
when configure is called with /any/ kind of relative path, in-source or not.
You might try calling it with an absolute path and see whether that makes
any difference.


Phil

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