Hello Andy and all, I am replying to this alod thread... Andrew Price (2019/07/11 14:29 +0100): > > > On 11/07/2019 14:22, Sébastien Hinderer wrote: > > 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. > > It sounds like you want $abs_top_srcdir It seems this no longer works? Is that known, or is there anything I am doing wrong? I added this line to configure.ac: AC_MSG_NOTICE([abs_top_srcdir: $abs_top_srcdir]) And it produces as output: configure: abs_top_srcdir: Thanks! Sébastien.
