[PATCH] Properly get cygwin dir from sub-configure

[Jeff Johnston]

----- Original Message -----
> On Apr  2 11:02, Peter Foley wrote:
> > When configuring subdirs of newlib, such as libc for example, the path
> > to the winsup directory is calculated relative to the current srcdir,
> > which only works at the top-level.
> > Fix the path to be relative to newlib's top-level srcdir.
> 
> Jeff, was there a reason to use srcdir instead of newlib_basedir at
> this point?
> 
> /me fuzzy on autoconf stuff...
> 

I didn't add that particular line.  It dates back to 2003 with Chris Faylor.  Configuration
in sub-directories has never worked properly usually due to missing variables set by parent levels.

-- Jeff J.

> 
> Thanks,
> Corinna
> 
> > 
> > newlib/ChangeLog:
> > configure.host: use $newlib_basedir to calculate cygwin_srcdir
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
> > ---
> >  newlib/configure.host | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/newlib/configure.host b/newlib/configure.host
> > index 8b0846e..7ac3717 100644
> > --- a/newlib/configure.host
> > +++ b/newlib/configure.host
> > @@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ esac
> >  
> >  case "${host}" in
> >    *-*-cygwin*)
> > -	test -z "$cygwin_srcdir" && cygwin_srcdir=`cd ${srcdir}/../winsup/cygwin;
> > pwd`
> > +	test -z "$cygwin_srcdir" && cygwin_srcdir=`cd
> > ${newlib_basedir}/../winsup/cygwin; pwd`
> >  	export cygwin_srcdir
> >  	default_newlib_io_c99_formats="yes"
> >  	default_newlib_io_long_long="yes"
> > --
> > 2.8.0
> 
> --
> Corinna Vinschen
> Cygwin Maintainer
> Red Hat
>