On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 00:22 +0200, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > 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.
It seems I found a solution myself. It can be done like: check-local: $(builddir)/obj-static/test/run_all_tests $(builddir)/obj-static/test/run_all_tests $(srcdir)/../data.txt