Re: non-recursive make and tests

2004-08-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: The $(srcdir) value passed is often essentially useless since it may just be '.'. It is difficult for the Makefile to produce better values except for perhaps offsets from @abs_top_srcdir@ and @abs_top_builddir@ substitutions. It may also be possible

Re: non-recursive make and tests

2004-08-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 20:30 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It would be quite helpful if Automake offered a mode in which it automatically changed the working directory to the directory where the test program/scrip

Re: non-recursive make and tests

2004-08-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 20:30 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > > > It would be quite helpful if Automake offered a mode in which it > > automatically changed the working directory to the directory where the test > > program/script resides and set $srcd

Re: non-recursive make and tests

2004-08-30 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It would be quite helpful if Automake offered a mode in which it automatically changed the working directory to the directory where the test program/script resides and set $srcdir to the relative position in the source tree to support VPATH builds. Th