Hi, Is it allowed to list files in the parent directory of the main source directory in AC_CONFIG_FILES? I'm trying the following small example configure.ac: AC_INIT(testcase, 0.0.1, example@xxxxxxxxxxx) AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_CONFIG_FILES([test ../test_parent]) AC_OUTPUT When I use autoconf-2.63 with this, and run the resulting configure script, and there is no 'install' program in $PATH, the script './install-sh' is used as $INSTALL. In the 'test' output file, @INSTALL@ is then correctly replaced by './install.sh'. However, in '../test_parent' @INSTALL@ is replaced by '.././install.sh', which does not exist. At a cursory glance, it seems config.status is counting slashes in '../test_parent' and concluding test_parent is in a subdirectory of the source directory. Is this expected behaviour? I couldn't find any reference in the autoconf documentation or on the mailing list to this case, but I may have overlooked it. Should it be useful, I prepared a small tarball with the example configure.ac and the other necessary files at http://www.usecode.org/misc/autoconf_parent_output.tar . Aside: this issue popped up when building the Singular ( http://www.singular.uni-kl.de/ ) mathematics package which uses autoconf. It uses multiple configure scripts, one of which is in one subdirectory of the root and generates a Makefile in another subdirectory of the root. It was encountered by a Sage ( http://www.sagemath.org ) developer who was building a patched Singular as part of Sage on a Solaris machine that did not have an 'install' binary. With kind regards, Willem Jan _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
