From 0839d6e6bc61f3fa035cd680056852cf3a6cd4e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:24:16 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] 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.

---
 configure.ac | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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"