[Vm-dev] Unix VM configure question

[Andreas Raab]

Ah! So *that* is what that's good for ;-) Thanks a lot!

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On Feb 22, 2007, at 21:24 , Andreas Raab wrote:
> 
>> Hi Guys -
>>
>> I'm trying to build a unix VM that doesn't have to live in an absolute 
>> location (so we can install it in a user's directory instead of 
>> /usr/local/mumble). It looked like configure --prefix=. would be the 
>> way to go, but it complains about
>>
>> configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: .
>>
>> How does one convince configure to use a relative location?
> 
> No go. Use an absolute path for building, then just copy the files 
> wherever you want.
> 
> You need to give a command line argument where the plugins are found 
> when running. My Croquet.sh script takes care of doing that, I'm sure 
> you have that somewhere on your disk ;)
> 
> - Bert -
> 
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