Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:02:24PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>
>>I tried to replace $(top_builddir)
>>in a Makefile.am by $(abs_top_builddir), but the new
>>Makefile did not define this macro.
>
>
> Actually, this is a bug/feature of Automake, that these variables
> are not propagated by default.
>
> A possible workaround is to place
> AC_SUBST([abs_top_builddir])
> to your configure.ac.
>
It was easier to patch header-vars.am. See below.
builddir is not set, so I skipped top_builddir, too.
Regards
Harri
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diff -ur ../automake-1.9.5/lib/am/header-vars.am ./lib/am/header-vars.am
--- ../automake-1.9.5/lib/am/header-vars.am 2003-06-02 09:08:40.000000000 +0200
+++ ./lib/am/header-vars.am 2005-05-10 10:26:44.000000000 +0200
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
## 02111-1307, USA.
srcdir = @srcdir@
+abs_srcdir = @abs_srcdir@
top_srcdir = @top_srcdir@
+abs_top_srcdir = @abs_top_srcdir@
VPATH = @srcdir@
@SET_MAKE@
@@ -38,6 +40,7 @@
## Location of top build directory relative to this one.
top_builddir = %TOPDIR%
+abs_top_builddir = @abs_top_builddir@
am__cd = CDPATH="$${ZSH_VERSION+.}$(PATH_SEPARATOR)" && cd
INSTALL = @INSTALL@
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