On Thursday 13 January 2011, Ian Lance wrote: > Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On Thursday 13 January 2011, Ian Lance wrote: > >> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> > Are you sure about this? Why then is the attached testcase working > >> > (for me at least)? > >> > >> I guess I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with your > >> example. A relative srcdir will sometimes work and sometimes fail. It > >> seemed to me an absolute srcdir should always work, but Ralf has pointed > >> out a somewhat obscure case where it too can fail. Either way, it makes > >> no sense for automake to use two different values for srcdir. It should > >> pick one and stick to it. > >> > > Yes, but my testcase *should* show (at least in my understanding) > > that in the dejagnu tests both the TCL-level '$srcdir' variable and > > the environment variable 'srcdir' contain an absolute path, even > > when the Makefile variable $(srcdir) contains a relative path (in > > this case, `.'). > > Take a look at the site.exp file and see what value is in there for > srcdir: relative or absolute? > Relative (as I expected):
$ cat dejagnu-srcdir-is-absolute.dir/site.exp ## these variables are automatically generated by make ## # Do not edit here. If you wish to override these values # edit the last section set srcdir . set objdir /home/stefano/src/automake/tests/dejagnu-srcdir-is-absolute.dir ## All variables above are generated by configure. Do Not Edit ## But then, why the testcase suceeds? I would expect it to fail! Thanks, Stefano
