On Thursday 13 January 2011, Ian Lance wrote: > Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Are you sure about this? Why then is the attached testcase working > > (for me at least)? > > I guess I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with your > example. A relative srcdir will sometimes work and sometimes fail. It > seemed to me an absolute srcdir should always work, but Ralf has pointed > out a somewhat obscure case where it too can fail. Either way, it makes > no sense for automake to use two different values for srcdir. It should > pick one and stick to it. > Yes, but my testcase *should* show (at least in my understanding) that in the dejagnu tests both the TCL-level '$srcdir' variable and the environment variable 'srcdir' contain an absolute path, even when the Makefile variable $(srcdir) contains a relative path (in this case, `.').
Regards, Stefano
