abs_top_srcdir broken?

2021-10-18 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear all, Given the follwing configure.ac script: AC_INIT([demo], [demo], [0.1], [d...@demo.org]) AC_MSG_NOTICE([abs_top_srcdir="$abs_top_srcdir"]) Tue configure script produced by autoconf 2.69 prints: configure: abs_top_srcdir="" Is that an expected behaviour? Thanks, Sébastien.

Re: abs_top_srcdir broken?

2021-10-18 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2021-10-18, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > Given the follwing configure.ac script: > > AC_INIT([demo], [demo], [0.1], [d...@demo.org]) > AC_MSG_NOTICE([abs_top_srcdir="$abs_top_srcdir"]) > > [The] configure script produced by autoconf 2.69 prints: > > configure: abs_top_srcdir="" > > Is that an ex

Re: abs_top_srcdir broken?

2021-10-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, Nick Bowler wrote: Configure scripts are always executed from the top build directory so most of these directory variables are not needed in tests. If required, it is easy enough to compute absolute directories in the shell: case $srcdir in /*) my_abs_top_srcdir=$srcdir