Re: [PATCH] Unbreak program transformation name `configure' options

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 04/27/2012 04:46 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Pedro Alves wrote:
> 
>> It indeed removed AC_ARG_PROGRAM.  It also does this though:
>>
>> -AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(`cd $srcdir;pwd`/..)
>> +AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(..)
>>
>> I wonder if we need to restore that bit as well.
> 
>  I built out of the source directory so perhaps not?  This looks weird to 
> me, autoconf should handle that just fine:
> 
> "-- Macro: AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR (DIR)
>      Use the auxiliary build tools (e.g., `install-sh', `config.sub',
>      `config.guess', Cygnus `configure', Automake and Libtool scripts,
>      etc.) that are in directory DIR.  These are auxiliary files used
>      in configuration.  DIR can be either absolute or relative to
>      `SRCDIR'.  The default is `SRCDIR' or `SRCDIR/..' or
>      `SRCDIR/../..', whichever is the first that contains `install-sh'."
> 
> -- perhaps this was a left-over from times when autoconf was more fragile?  
> I bet we have more places where we have some work-around logic left from 
> the old days.


Yeah, sounds like at some point AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR didn't handle
relative paths to srcdir.  Thanks.

-- 
Pedro Alves