Hello, * Jim Meyering wrote on Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:28:58PM CEST: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: > > What about instead making the names of the temporaries source/build/install > > directories used by "make distcheck" configurable? This will offer more > > flexibility, and won't introduce still another automake option which would > > make backward-compatibility more problematic. > > > > I was thinking of something on these lines: > > > > $ cat Makefile.am > > ... > > AM_DISTCHECK_BUILDDIR_NAME = _ b u i l d ## will be relative to $(distdir) > > AM_DISTCHECK_SRCDIR_NAME = . ## likewise > > AM_DISTCHECK_INSTALLDIR_NAME = i...@l1 ## likewise > > > > If you like the proposal, I might try to implement this (but right away). > > I do like it. Thanks!
Me too, but the onus for quoting should probably be with the person defining the variables, because there is no well-defined way to do otherwise. (And of course you cannot have comments in variables.) I like it also because some packages will never want to care about being buildable under more stressful circumstances. However, I think you probably need either srcdir and reverse_srcdir, or only the latter and compute the former from that. Thanks, Ralf