On 11/17/05, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nupur wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I am getting an error while configuring libbonobo-2.8.1 for GNOME. > > > > The error is listed below: > > > > configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: > > pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0 > > > > It looks like you didn't use backticks `` when you configured it > > ./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` > > They can be confusing. You could copy and paste from a browser or use $( ) > like so > > ./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) > > Andy
Thanks for your reply. I used the backticks. I am using the command same as mentioned in the book. But now, I have compiled using /usr instead and it compiled fine. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
