From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:24:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: We cannot 'cd' to the ares build dir to get the path, as the directory hasn't
X-Git-Tag: curl-7_11_0~134
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0839d6e6bc61f3fa035cd680056852cf3a6cd4e1;p=curl

We cannot 'cd' to the ares build dir to get the path, as the directory hasn't
been created at this point yet when we build outside of the source dir.
---

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index aadf63f04..36d689199 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1058,8 +1058,12 @@ AC_HELP_STRING([--disable-ares],[Disable ares for name lookups]),
             AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(ares)
             aresinc=`cd $srcdir/ares && pwd`
             CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$aresinc"
-            areslib=`cd ares && pwd`
-            LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$areslib"
+
+            dnl the pwd= below cannot 'cd' into the ares dir to get the full
+            dnl path to it, since it may not exist yet if we build outside of
+            dnl the source tree
+            pwd=`pwd`
+            LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$pwd/ares"
          fi
        else
          CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$enableval/include"