Re: warning while running [libc]/configure

[Jeroen Dekkers]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:58:10PM +0600, Dmitry V. Zhulanov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> While running [libc]/configure script
> $ mkdir build;cd build
> $ ../configure
> 
> It prints warning message:
> configure: WARNING: --prefix= (empty) is requed for GNU/Hurd to work
> normaly.
> 
> I wish to install libc to the root. So I try
> $ ../configure --prefix=/
> Warning message printed again, --prefix="/" follow to same results.
> 
> Why setting --prefix does not avoid warning message?

Because as the warning says, the prefix should be empty, e.g.:
../configure --prefix=

Having prefix=/ should work either, but it isn't really correct
because you'll get paths like //bin, //lib, because /bin is appended
to the prefix.

-- 
Jeroen Dekkers