If you try to install apr, apr-iconv and apr-util all to a local, HOME-related directory, the ./configure for apr-util will fail. This is what I get when running configure for apr-util: ``` ./configure --prefix=/home/myuser/svn_install --with-apr=/home/myuser/svn_install --with-apr-iconv=/home/myuser/svn_install ``` (After previously doing the same for apr and apr-iconv with the same prefix, which didn't have issues.) However, the above command fails with the following output: ``` checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for working mkdir -p... yes APR-util Version: 1.7.0 checking for chosen layout... apr-util checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed Applying apr-util hints file rules for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking for APR... yes setting CPP to "gcc -E" adding "-pthread" to CFLAGS setting CPPFLAGS to " -DLINUX -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE" configuring package in /home/myuser/svn_install now ./configure: line 4274: cd: .//home/myuser/svn_install: No such file or directory /bin/sh: /configure: No such file or directory configure failed for /home/myuser/svn_install ``` For some reason, it's prefixing './' to the absolute path provided.
I tried the above with 1.6.1 release version and 1.7.x from svn.