JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 3f7f46096258f2d90e839b91de13bc9540e59897
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By ViralBShah:

They are nicer to read and shorter or else you get long pathnames all over. It does not seem to matter -any reason to use relative paths? Also, some tools did not like relative paths, namely the arpack configure script. But, we are not using that build process now.

-viral

On 30-Jan-2012, at 12:40 AM, Stefan Karpinski wrote:

> Why the insistence on absolute paths everywhere? I intentionally changed those all to be relative.
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