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ID:	Category:	Severity:	Reproducibility:	Date Submitted:	Last Update:
501	building stuff	minor	always	2008-01-06 01:55	2008-01-06 01:55
Reporter:	kh	Platform:	x86
Assigned To:		OS:	NetBSD
Priority:	normal	Version:	3.1
Status:	new	Product Version:	0.6.2 (stable)
Product Build:		Resolution:	open
Projection:	none	Duplicate ID:
ETA:	none
Summary:	configure script overrides value for --prefix even if it should not
Description:	If I run ./configure --prefix=/var/tmp/cfgsymlink and /var/tmp/cfgsymlink is a symlink to /var/tmp/cfgtest/, the resulting prefix variable in config.status is not "/var/tmp/cfgsymlink" (as specified by the user who probably wants it that way) but "/var/tmp/cfgtest". The reason for this behaviour is an incomplete fix for relative path prefixes in configure.in where every prefix is changed with prefix="`cd $prefix && pwd`" instead of relative prefixes only.
Steps To Reproduce:	- create a directory /var/tmp/cfgtest - create a symlink /var/tmp/cfgsymlink pointing to /var/tmp/cfgtest - run ./configure --prefix=/var/tmp/cfgsymlink - examine config.status and wonder why @prefix@ does not have the value "/var/tmp/cfgsymlink".
Additional Information / Solution:	Apply the appended patch where prefix is only changed if the path is relative, ie it starts with a dot.
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