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automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant <at> google.com>
Cc: 7833 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7833: automake uses two different values for DejaGNU srcdir
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:26:26 +0100

On Thursday 13 January 2011, Ian Lance wrote:
> Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Are you sure about this?  Why then is the attached testcase working
> > (for me at least)?
> 
> I guess I'm not sure what point you are trying to make with your
> example.  A relative srcdir will sometimes work and sometimes fail.  It
> seemed to me an absolute srcdir should always work, but Ralf has pointed
> out a somewhat obscure case where it too can fail.  Either way, it makes
> no sense for automake to use two different values for srcdir.  It should
> pick one and stick to it.
> 
Yes, but my testcase *should* show (at least in my understanding)
that in the dejagnu tests both the TCL-level '$srcdir' variable and
the environment variable 'srcdir' contain an absolute path, even
when the Makefile variable $(srcdir) contains a relative path (in
this case, `.').

Regards,
  Stefano

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