Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> I wonder which use case made it so using AC_SUBST wasn't an option. > > IIRC, it is when the user specifies > ../path/configure --srcdir=../path > with a relative pathname. Normally you can omit --srcdir, because configure > finds it by itself; then $ac_srcdir is an absolute path;
$ac_srcdir will be relative even if you omit --srcdir. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
