configure with relative srcdir causing absolute pathname in gcc/Makefile

[Doug Evans]

Hans-Peter Nilsson writes:
 > 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.

When I was at Cygnus I _seem_ to recall it being defined the way
I indicate and effort being made to make it work that way.
Ian, am I misremembering?

 > If you really think it should be that way, it needs to be
 > written down *somewhere*.

No disagreement there.