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Ticket UUID: 1725700
Title: Accept relative path for --prefix configure option
Type: RFE Version: None
Submitter: matzek Created on: 2007-05-25 15:32:06
Subsystem: 53. Configuration and Build Tools Assigned To: dgp
Priority: 3 Low Severity: Minor
Status: Open Last Modified: 2016-08-25 10:55:34
Resolution: None Closed By: nobody
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Description:
Hi *,

compiling from scratch and issuing the following configure call:

cd tcl8.4.15
unix/configure --prefix=..

leads later during "make test" to a failing unixInit-2.8 test case. The last entry of the getlibpath result is ../lib/tcl8.4 then.

Seen on Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

kind regards
-- Matthias Kraft
User Comments: dgp added on 2007-05-25 22:40:35:

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From tcl/unix/README:

    Note: be sure to use only absolute path names (those starting with "/")
    in the --prefix and --exec-prefix options.


So as things stand, this is pilot error.

Shifting this to the Feature Request
tracker, to consider support for relative
pathname arguments to --*prefix=