Dear Andrew and dear all, Many thanks for all your responses which I found all very useful and full of teachings. Andrew Price (2019/07/10 14:04 +0100): > On 10/07/2019 12:45, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'd need to compute the absolute path of srcdir in a portable way (it's > > okay if it includes symlinks). > > Couldn't you use the provided $abs_srcdir? I was actually not aware that this variable was there but it seems it gets replaced by the dirname of the .in file where it gets substituded, whihc I find very odd actually. So if the software is in, say, /home/me/src/software and the template file is in subdirectory foo of the tree, then when I run configure, what I see in the file produced from the template is /home/me/src/software/foo which is not quite what I expect. Cheers, Sébastien. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
