Re: [gtk-list] Re: gtk+-971201

[Rob Browning <rlb cs utexas edu>]

Owen Taylor <owt1@cornell.edu> writes:

> Ouch. I don't make any guarantees about things working if you do that!
> ;-)  (You are almost certainly installing some header files incorrectly
> for one thing)
>
> Can't you do --prefix=`cwd`/debian/tmp or something? If not, we should
> figure out what needs to be done to fix libtool.

He's absolutely right, Ben.  You *really* need to use an absolute
path.  I had this bite me when trying to disipline rscheme into going
where I wanted.  Relative paths are really dangerous in the build
process, especially here.

Good luck.

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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