On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 01:22:14PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
>
> I should have mentioned that both cases were generated by the
> same compiler. Of course in the first case the sources had to
> be saerched via vpath, so I had assumed that GNU make has
> created this absolute path name.

It depends on how you call configure:

   `../../src/configure'    will define $(srcdir) as `../../src',
   `/home/me/src/configure' will define $(srcdir) as `/home/me/src'.

$(srcdir) is then used in many places during the build to locate your
sources.

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