GNU bug report logs - #34846
top_builddir incorrectly formulated when src directory at same level as configure

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Package: autoconf;

Reported by: "Allwright, James" <James.Allwright <at> TheAA.com>

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:16:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #8 received at 34846 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker <at> t-online.de>
To: "Allwright, James" <James.Allwright <at> TheAA.com>, 34846 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#34846: top_builddir incorrectly formulated when src directory
 at same level as configure
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.
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