Path errors when using GNU Stow I am trying to get started with GNU Stow. 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): ./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?

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.