On Friday 04 March 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Peter, all, and sorry for the delay,
> 
> * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:22:32PM CET:
> > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > 
> > >Through testing I found out again that DejaGNU does not cope with white
> > >space in absolute directory names anyway, regardless of srcdir being
> > >relative or absolute.  That obviates my first point.  Remains only the
> > >fairly minor src+build-tree relocatability point.
> 
> > I remember a problem with gcc's 'make check' that could be related.  Some
> > tests failed when `pwd -L` was different from `pwd -P`, presumably due to
> > the two different srcdir's.
> > 
> > I could avoid this problem by first doing 'cd `pwd -P`'.
> 
> Thanks for mentioning this.  I asked on the bug-dejagnu list back then,
> and have an answer now:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.dejagnu.bugs/345/focus=348
> 
> I think we should change Automake semantics here and provide a relative
> srcdir only.  That would mean, the first patch I suggested in
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5230/focus=5464
> 
> Stefano, would you like to rewrite your testsuite addition for this?
>
I've adjusted my patch accordingly.  Please find the new attempt attached.
Is that ok for master?

Thanks,
  Stefano