Sam Steingold wrote:
> clisp directory structure is:
> clisp - top level; hand-written configure script (ask Bruno)
> clisp/src - most sources, configure.in, configure, aclocal.m4
> clisp/src/gllib, clisp/src/glm4 - imported from gnulib
> clisp/src/build-aux - imported from many places, mostly gnulib
The documentation in the Autoconf manual
-- Variable: top_srcdir
The name of the top-level source code directory for the package.
In the top-level directory, this is the same as `srcdir'.
is a bit misleading. This quote, also from the Autoconf manual,
"... coupled with the
fact that `configure' is always run from the top build directory, it is
sufficient to use just `$srcdir' instead of `$top_srcdir'."
indicates the real meaning: top_srcdir is the innermost directory that
contains $srcdir and has an autoconf-generated configure file.
For example, in gettext, I have a subdirectory gettext-runtime, and
inside this subdirectory $(top_srcdir) is the gettext-runtime directory -
because it has a separate configure file.
So, in clisp, $(top_srcdir) ought to be clisp/src.
You can get in trouble here if you use fake configure.ac / configure
file that are present at the moment 'automake' is run but are removed
afterwards.
> $ grep top_srcdir src/gllib/Makefile.am
> appears to indicate that top_srcdir should point to clisp.
Maybe this is related to this hack in clisp/Makefile.devel:
src/gllib/Makefile.in : src/gllib/Makefile.am src/configure.in src/aclocal.m4
cd src && automake gllib/Makefile && \
sed -i -e 's,$$(top_srcdir)/src/build-aux,$$(CLISP_LIBDIR)/build-aux,' \
-e 's,$$(top_srcdir)/$$cl_cv_clisp_libdir,$$(CLISP_LIBDIR),' \
gllib/Makefile.in
Bruno
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