configure with relative srcdir causing absolute pathname in gcc/Makefile

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Doug Evans wrote:
> When you configure with a relative srcdir, as in
>
> mkdir obj
> cd obj
> ../src/configure blah
>
> this is supposed to avoid absolute pathnames appearing in Makefiles.
> This makes it easy to move the tree around.
> [at least things used to work that way, dunno if this is a documented rule]

Probably just a coincidence that it worked that way.  I don't
think a relative srcdir *should* differ from an absolute one.
If you really think it should be that way, it needs to be
written down *somewhere*.

brgds, H-P