On 11/07/2019 14:22, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
Dear Andrew and dear all,
Many thanks for all your responses which I found all very useful and
full of teachings.
Andrew Price (2019/07/10 14:04 +0100):
On 10/07/2019 12:45, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
Dear all,
I'd need to compute the absolute path of srcdir in a portable way (it's
okay if it includes symlinks).
Couldn't you use the provided $abs_srcdir?
I was actually not aware that this variable was there but it seems it
gets replaced by the dirname of the .in file where it gets substituded,
whihc I find very odd actually. So if the software is in, say,
/home/me/src/software
and the template file is in subdirectory foo of the tree, then when I
run configure, what I see in the file produced from the template is
/home/me/src/software/foo which is not quite what I expect.
It sounds like you want $abs_top_srcdir
Relevant documentation:
https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Preset-Output-Variables.html
Andy
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