X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 11:59:11 +0400 From: Fedin Pavel Subject: Re: configure --prerfix=/ In-reply-to: <20120503072324.GF3031@calimero.vinschen.de> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <4FA23ACF.5020608@samsung.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120206 Thunderbird/10.0 References: <4FA21A6D.3040500@samsung.com> <20120503072324.GF3031@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 03.05.2012 11:23, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Yes, that's a bug in autoconf. It doesn't fully respect POSIX pathname > rules. What happens is that it simply attaches pathnames with a leading > slash to the prefix, Ah, yes, really, i simply forgot this. In fact IMHO it's not a bug in autoconf. We supply prefix without a trailing slash, so concatenation is ok here. Root directory would be expressed by empty prefix, really. Just i forgot about UNC paths... Should be noticed somewhere in easy-to-reach FAQ i think... -- Kind regards Pavel Fedin Expert engineer, Samsung Moscow research center -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple