Hello Victor, Victor Porton <por...@narod.ru> writes:
> I want to pass absolute (or relative with possible ../../..) path of > certain file (for example, laying in the same directory as Makefile or > in its subdirectory or its superdirectory) to my application. > > For example, consider that I created application run-tests in a direct > subdirectory of the Makefile and I want to run > > ./run-tests ../data.txt > > when I am in a direct subdirectory of the directory with the Makefile, > because data.txt lies in the same directory as the Makefile. > > That is I want Automake to add the correct ../ prefix to data.txt. > > How to get the path to my data.txt? I am not sure to understand what you are trying to do. A minimal example of a 'configure.ac' and a 'Makefile.am' building 'run-tests' would make easier for us to understand and help you. Thanks. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37