I found a problem when trying to configure rhug with srcdir=".".
It would try to mkdir /.deps. The reason was (it seemed) to be a bug
in configure. Since configure is generated by autoconf, I took a
look at cvs autoconf, which seemed to have a variant of the same
problem in aclocal.m4. However, since aclocal.m4 is also
auto-generated, presumably the actual bug is somewhere else, but
a 'grep' failed to find any other files matching 'Strip MF',
so I don't know where to go next.
Anyway, I don't pretend to understand the code in aclocal.m4,
but it certainly *looks* wrong to set dirpart to "", considering
the mkdir "$dirpart/$DEPDIR" just below.
--
--Per Bothner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/per/
Index: aclocal.m4
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RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/aclocal.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 aclocal.m4
--- aclocal.m4 11 Feb 2002 14:04:54 -0000 1.18
+++ aclocal.m4 23 Feb 2002 01:07:08 -0000
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@
if (head -1 $mf | fgrep 'generated by automake') > /dev/null 2>&1; then
dirpart=`AS_DIRNAME("$mf")`
else
- dirpart=
+ dirpart=.
fi
grep '^DEP_FILES *= *[[^ @%:@]]' < "$mf" > /dev/null || continue
# Extract the definition of DEP_FILES from the Makefile without
