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bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir
From: |
Ian Lance Taylor |
Subject: |
bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:12:45 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thursday 13 January 2011, Ian Lance wrote:
>> Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Are you sure about this? Why then is the attached testcase working
>> > (for me at least)?
>>
>> I guess I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with your
>> example. A relative srcdir will sometimes work and sometimes fail. It
>> seemed to me an absolute srcdir should always work, but Ralf has pointed
>> out a somewhat obscure case where it too can fail. Either way, it makes
>> no sense for automake to use two different values for srcdir. It should
>> pick one and stick to it.
>>
> Yes, but my testcase *should* show (at least in my understanding)
> that in the dejagnu tests both the TCL-level '$srcdir' variable and
> the environment variable 'srcdir' contain an absolute path, even
> when the Makefile variable $(srcdir) contains a relative path (in
> this case, `.').
Take a look at the site.exp file and see what value is in there for
srcdir: relative or absolute?
Ian