Hello, On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:05:56AM +0100, wolfgang haefelinger wrote: > Variable: srcdir > The relative path to the directory that contains the > sourcecode for that `Makefile'. yes, you are right, it's not always relative. It depends on the way you call configure. If you call ../pkg-1.2.3/configure you get a relative path, at least on my host (bash on GNU/Linux), while by /home/me/tests/pkg-1.2.3/configure you end up with an absolute path. Perhaps ths documentation should say that the path ``may be relative''. Regards, Stepan Kasal _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf