Dear Nick, Nick Bowler (2021/10/18 13:39 -0400): > On 2021-10-18, Sébastien Hinderer <sebastien.hinde...@inria.fr> wrote: > > Given the follwing configure.ac script: > > > > AC_INIT([demo], [demo], [0.1], [d...@demo.org]) > > AC_MSG_NOTICE([abs_top_srcdir="$abs_top_srcdir"]) > > > > [The] configure script produced by autoconf 2.69 prints: > > > > configure: abs_top_srcdir="" > > > > Is that an expected behaviour? > > I don't know about "expected" but it appears to at least be longstanding > behavour. This variable is substituted into output files but this is > done directly by config.status and is not itself available within > configure scripts.
Many thanks! That was the bit I missed. I think it's the first time I am faced to this behaviour of a variable that will indeed get substituted by ocnfigu.status but whose value is not available in configure itself. Many thanks for having made this clear to me! Best wishes, Sébastien.
