[Vm-dev] Unix VM configure question
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Thu Feb 22 20:39:53 UTC 2007
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 -
>
>
More information about the Vm-dev
mailing list