Re: sysconf_DATA v. dist_sysconf_DATA

[David Everly]

On 11/9/06, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * David Everly wrote on Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:52:12PM CET:
> > On 11/9/06, Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:46:23PM -0700, David Everly wrote:
> > >> I put together a test case before sending my email, the only line in
> > >> the one Makefile.am is the one I gave containing test.txt.
> > >
> > >well, I created configure.ac and Makefile.am:
> [...]
> > This is almost identical to what I tried.
>
> Thanks for the example.  So this is the same issue as discussed in this
> thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2006-09/msg00014.html

If I understand this correctly, my error was in the use of
$(top_srcdir).  So I'm wondering under what circumstances it would be
correct to use $(top_srcdir) and $(srcdir).

Or is it that I should 'make distcheck' from a VPATH build?

Either of these two approaches seem to address my issue.  Is one more
correct than the other?