I am trying to get started with GNU Stow. I have defined STOW_DIR to point to a personal path:STOW_DIR=/some/pathI 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):./configure --prefix=$STOW_DIR/stowmakemake install prefix=$STOW_DIR/stowAnd then I build the symlinks:cd $STOW_DIR./stow/bin/stow stowbut 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?
Path errors when using GNU Stow
stow
This looks remarkably similar to a bug discussed in the help-stow mailing list, which coincidentally surfaced within the last 48 hours.This is probably a bug, which was fixed in this commit. You may try cloning that branch and see if it fixes the issue for you.