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? Ian