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Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 11:59:11 +0400
From: Fedin Pavel <p DOT fedin AT samsung DOT com>
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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


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