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Re: srcdir detection
From: |
Tim Van Holder |
Subject: |
Re: srcdir detection |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:45:18 +0200 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) |
Stepan Kasal wrote:
> The autodetection code (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR in lib/autoconf/general.m4) tries
> the folowing candidates for srcdir:
> 1) directory name of the configure script
> 2) ..
>
> So if configure was called with full path, srcdir is set to the full path.
> This can cause problems: VPATH build is recognized by "test $srcdir = ."
> (for example, search ac_vpsub in lib/autoconf/status.m4).
>
> I think _AC_INIT_SRCDIR should try srcdir=. before the other two
> candidates.
Couldn't you simply fix the VPATH detection?
Comparing `(cd $srcdir; pwd)` and `pwd` should do the trick, no?