Re: srcdir detection (was: Re: gettext 0.14.5 compile issue)

[Bruno Haible]

Stepan Kasal wrote:
> > There are two ways for a user to arrive at the situation where $srcdir
> > is the current directory but not ".":
> >   1)   ./configure --srcdir=`pwd`
> >   2)   `pwd`/configure
> >
> > Your patch addresses only the second one.
>
> that was my intention.  If you give --srcdir explicitely, you are
> on your own.

That doesn't match what the INSTALL file says:

   "You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
    same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
    own directory.  To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
    supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'."

That text makes it clear that a user can expect to need GNU make if
he uses a different directory. Not if he specifies the --srcdir option.
And "configure --help" doesn't say that --srcdir forces use of GNU make
either.

Bruno