Subject: bug#34846: top_builddir incorrectly formulated when src directory at same level as configure

From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:23:07 +0100

Am 13.03.2019 um 16:44 schrieb Allwright, James:
> Hi,
> 
> I believe I have found a bug in automake relating to the parsing of
> filepaths and/or directories.

I believe you have used automake incorrectly.

> In  proj3/ Makefile.am  I have
> 
> SUBDIRS= ../proj3_src

According to what it says on the tin, you're supposed to put
_subdirectories_ into that SUBDIRS listing.

But that's not a subdirectory  It's a next-door directory.