1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 86b26daf9..3ccbbaf0c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: configure.ac,v 1.237 2005/02/02 12:30:25 dtucker Exp $
+# $Id: configure.ac,v 1.238 2005/02/09 11:12:31 dtucker Exp $
 #
 # Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Damien Miller
 #
@@ -1226,6 +1226,10 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(ssl-dir,
         [  --with-ssl-dir=PATH     Specify path to OpenSSL installation ],
         [
                 if test "x$withval" != "xno" ; then
+                        case "$withval" in
+                                # Relative paths
+                                ./*|../*)       withval="`pwd`/$withval"
+                        esac
                         if test -d "$withval/lib"; then
                                 if test -n "${need_dash_r}"; then
                                         LDFLAGS="-L${withval}/lib -R${withval}/lib ${LDFLAGS}"