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Re: configure with relative srcdir causing absolute pathname ingcc/Makefile
Hans-Peter Nilsson writes:
> On Thu, 30 May 2002, Doug Evans wrote:
> > When you configure with a relative srcdir, as in
> >
> > mkdir obj
> > cd obj
> > ../src/configure blah
> >
> > this is supposed to avoid absolute pathnames appearing in Makefiles.
> > This makes it easy to move the tree around.
> > [at least things used to work that way, dunno if this is a documented rule]
>
> Probably just a coincidence that it worked that way. I don't
> think a relative srcdir *should* differ from an absolute one.
When I was at Cygnus I _seem_ to recall it being defined the way
I indicate and effort being made to make it work that way.
Ian, am I misremembering?
> If you really think it should be that way, it needs to be
> written down *somewhere*.
No disagreement there.