On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Akash Rawal <argm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We use absolute paths because relative paths break tests when build > tree is separate from source tree. Thank you! Didn't know about VPATH builds before and I just loved the idea! > The reason the make check fails is that test program cd's to a > subdirectory to run tests. After changing directory, the > relative path is no longer correct. To further complicate the issue, > srcdir and top_srcdir are not guaranteed to be relative paths. Oh! Then, may be it's better to not build wget2 at a location with space characters in it's path as make doesn't handle well the paths with space characters in it. And that's not a wget2 issue. ;) -- Avinash Sonawane (rootKea) PICT, Pune https://rootkea.wordpress.com
