>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> On Feb 3, 2001, Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> OTOH, autoconf defines @INSTALL@ using $ac_aux_dir, and $(INSTALL) is
>> usable anywhere. That's because this variable has a special treatment
>> in config.status (its relative path is adjusted with regard to the
>> depth of the generated file). Maybe another solution would be to
>> provide a mean for the autoconf user to specify additional variable to
>> be handled likewise.
>> Using relative paths whenever a file from the package (such as
>> the files in $ac_aux_dir) is refered to seems better to me
>> because it allows people to move a whole tree without requiring
>> `make distclean'.
Alexandre> Yep. I like the solution proposed above. In fact, I like it very
Alexandre> much!
Another idea among the same lines: let config.status
automagically adjust all AC_SUBST'ed variables whose value
start with the value of $srcdir.
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
