Re: [patch] config.status builddir awareness

[Lars J. Aas]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 05:58:18AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
: On Jul  8, 2000, "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > +  Source files can now also be specified with absolute (/)
: > +  and builddir-relative (./) paths.
: 
: I don't like `./'; it may well be the result of some scripting such as
: `dirname foo`/foo, which will break.  I'd rather have a VPATH-like
: search for the source file in builddir then srcdir.

How about tagging it with "^/" instead?  ^ for top_builddir?  I think having
the file search happen implicit can cause problems, so I would prefer it if
this was set explicitly.

  Lars J