On 4 October 2010 00:16, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've just tried with curl, since I have the sources on my machine and
>> it uses autoconf.  I copied it to '/tmp/some where' and then ran
>> './configure --prefix="/tmp/some path"'.
>>
>> The configure step worked without complaint
>
> Packages should be configurable from _outside_ the sources. Indeed, most of
> the times sources may be read-only and the compilation directory a
> read/write one. Or one may have one set of sources and many different
> builds. Try the same from a different directory, like
>
> "/path/to/ecl/with a space/in/it/configure" --prefix=....

Ah indeed.  Curl's configure fails when called as above too.

-- 
Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com>

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