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

2006-05-29 Thread Eric Christopher
On May 28, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: Thanks Andrew, that is exactly what I did, although I was expecting configure to be smart enough to use that trick on my behalf. but that would be guessing what you meant and not requiring you to explicitly say what you meant. -eric

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

2006-05-28 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 28, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > Dear all, > > Doesn't autotools support relative path

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

2006-05-28 Thread Andrew Pinski
On May 28, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez 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 prefi

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

2006-05-28 Thread Manuel López-Ibáñez
Dear all, Doesn't autotools support relative paths in configure? Or is this a particular issue of GCC's build system? Cheers, Manuel.