This is a reproposal of an older patch of mine: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-05/msg00008.html> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-05/msg00009.html>
-*-*- Hello automakers. I see that some tests explicitly put a call like: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.]) in the generated configure.in, to prevent automake from looking into `..' and `../..' when trying to copy required files. I think that such a provision should be made unconditional, as it could help to reduce undefined/unexpected behaviours. Obviously, we should leave a way for the individual testcases to easily override this default (and some existing tests already require such an overriding). The first patch in this series implements this idea. The second one extends the tests on `AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR' itself. OK to apply the patches to a temporary branch off of maint, and merge to the tests-init branch? I'll wait the customary 72 hours (until Tuesday evening) before pushing. Regards, Stefano