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Re: Documentation flaw in autoconf
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Eric Blake |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation flaw in autoconf |
Date: |
Sat, 31 May 2008 18:39:51 -0600 |
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[adding bug-autoconf; replies can drop bug-gnu-utils]
According to Michaël Grünewald on 5/29/2008 4:21 PM:
| Autconf will substitute in Makefile's templates many ``Preset Output
| Variables''. Some values of these variables represents path to
| directories in the file system. The documentation (section 3.3.1) does
| not tell whether these paths are absolute or relative,
Which section did you have in mind for this improvement? There is no
3.3.1 in the 2.62 manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html
|
| By the way, it could be useful to have some variables representing paths
| to directories and being guaranteed to be absolute. (I think especially
| to top_srcdir).
There is - use abs_top_srcdir.
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Preset-Output-Variables.html#Preset-Output-Variables
|
| Here is the version of autoconf I use:
|
| > autoconf --version
| autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
You may want to consider upgrading to 2.62.
|
| P.S.: I just noticed that Autoconf's documentation refers to
| address@hidden' whereas address@hidden' shall
| now be used.
Where in the manual did you find that? The correct address should be
'address@hidden' and not bug-gnu-utils. I don't see the
bug-gnu-utils anywhere in the 2.62 manual.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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