>>> "David" == David Kirkby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] David> The problem is that if run from the 'tests' directory, this runs okay, David> as the paths given in the test '../tools/src/mycksum' and David> '../examples/cop1.bmp' are correct relative to that 'tests' directory. David> However, if 'make distcheck' is run from the top directory of the David> package, the tests fails as those paths are wrong. To account for VPATH-builds, you should consider that sources files lie in `$srcdir', not `.'. Only built files are in the current directory. The above two paths are probably better written `$srcdir/../tools/src/mycksum' and '$srcdir/../examples/cop1.bmp'. $(srcdir) is defined as a Make variable in each Makefile. It is also exported as an environment variable to each test run as part of an Automake-style testsuite. David> Am I doing something fundamentally flawed? If not, is there a way of David> referring to the top level directory, so that for example $TOP/tests David> and $TOP/examples always point to the same directory, no matter where David> they are run from? Makefiles define $(top_srcdir), but this isn't exported to tests. Probably because nobody needed that yet. To answer your subject, there is no garanty that either $(srcdir) or $(top_srcdir) are absolute or relative, they can be either. Autoconf has recently started to substitute @abs_srcdir@ and @abs_top_srcdir@ (they do not get defined as Makefile variables, but you could do this yourself), however generally it's better to avoid using absolute paths. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
