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
