Subject: bug#18057: [PATCH] Find tail.c in srcdir, not builddir

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:37:33 +0200

On 07/19/2014 05:26 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> diff --git a/tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh b/tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh
> index c25f354..7140871 100755
> --- a/tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh
> +++ b/tests/tail-2/inotify-race.sh
> @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ case $(cat gdb.out) in
>       *) skip_ "can't run gdb";;
>   esac
>
> -break_src="$abs_top_builddir/src/tail.c"
> +break_src="$abs_top_srcdir/src/tail.c"
>   break_line=$(grep -n ^tail_forever_inotify "$break_src") || framework_failure_
>   break_line=$(echo "$break_line" | cut -d: -f1) || framework_failure_
>

Thanks for the patch.
However, what's wrong with $abs_top_builddir?
... given that it's successfully used in 21 other
places:

   $ git grep abs_top_builddir -- tests | wc -l
   22

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny