On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
The $(srcdir) value passed is often essentially useless since it may just be '.'. It is difficult for the Makefile to produce better values except for perhaps offsets from @abs_top_srcdir@ and @abs_top_builddir@ substitutions. It may also be possible to play games by passing back-ticked shell script fragments rather than normal values in the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT specification.
Regardless, the tests themselves should not have to know their position in the source or build tree.
If I add this sort of junk to the top of my test scripts then they seem to pass the tests:
set -e SRCDIR=`dirname $0` SRCDIR=`cd $SRCDIR && pwd` TOPSRCDIR=`cd $srcdir && pwd` cd utilities || exit 1
MODEL_MIFF="${TOPSRCDIR}/Magick++/demo/model.miff"
.
.
.Without the pwd's distcheck can't pass since srcdir may be passed as a useless '.'.
Unfortunately, with hundreds of such scripts, altering the test environment to convert to a non-recursive make is quite a penalty.
Many scripts could be one-liners if Automake can produce a per-directory test environment.
Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
