Top Level Autoconfiscation Status

[Tim Hollebeek]

> * To avoid a lot of subtle problems, configure uses absolute pathnames
> for most directories which it puts into the Makefile.  This means you
> can no longer 'configure', relocate srcdir or builddir, and then 'make'.
> I doubt that this is important.

It could cause problems with mounted directories, which can have
different names on different machines.  E.g. if I do a "make" in
/usr/export/src/gcc and then try to do a "make install" in
/net/src/gcc on a different machine.