Erik wrote: > Harlan Stenn wrote: > > > You can use: ../common/mySleep.c in your foo_SOURCES list. > > If the sources are in /home/user/src and you go to /home/usr/build > and do "../src/configure" the above will be completely wrong. > > The correct way to do it is to use "$(top_srcdir)/common/mySleep.c" > which will work under all circumstances.
I have years of experience and many examples that agree with me and not with you. The VPATH includes the SRCDIR, and as long as ../common/mySleep.c is correct from the source tree, it will work in a build tree. In my experience. H