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Re: configure --prerfix=/

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...

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