Jim Meyering wrote: > srcdir is expected to come from automake, and there, it is guaranteed > to be sanitized. It is usually simply "." or ".." or the name of a > package's subdirectory like "src" or "lib".
But it can contain absolute directory names. For example, when I have a
package in /home/bruno/data/tmp/testdir2 and build it in /tmp/build
by running
/home/bruno/data/tmp/testdir2/configure
make
make check
then an 'echo "$srcdir"' command will show
/home/bruno/data/tmp/testdir2/gltests
Bruno
