[Help-stow] Errors when trying to bootstrap Stow

[James Jong]

Hi,

I have posted the following question at the Unix StackExchange site (in case you prefer to read it there):

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/72344/errors-when-using-gnu-stow

I am trying to get started with GNU stow without luck. I have defined `STOW_DIR` to point to a personal path:

    STOW_DIR=/some/path

I then build a package of my choice from the tarball and install it under `STOW_DIR`. In this case, I am building `stow` itself (i.e. I am bootstrapping stow itself into stow, which is something that Stow supports):

    ./configure --prefix=$STOW_DIR/stow

    make

    make install prefix=$STOW_DIR/stow

And then I build the symlinks:

    cd $STOW_DIR

    ./stow/bin/stow stow

but at this point I get the following error:

> `stow: ERROR: The stow directory ../../../../some/path does not contain package stow (No such file or directory)`

why?

James