Re: srcdir

[John Poltorak]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 02:52:36PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Am Son, 2002-12-15 um 12.42 schrieb John Poltorak:
> > Can someone tell me in what circumstances srcdir gets resolved into a full 
> > pathname?
> 
> Normally, srcdir is derived from 2 sources:
> 1. The value passed to --srcdir=<path>
> 2. The path used to point to the configure script, when running it, ie.
> <path>/configure == <srcdir>/configure
> 
> [With 1. overriding 2. (ie. --srcdir=<path> overrides <path>/configure]
> 
> If you use an absolute path for one of these, srcdir will be absolute.

Thanks for pointing this out. I did have:-

configure --$PARMS

but just changing it to:-

./configure $PARMS

has sorted out the problem.

 
> Ralf


-- 
John