Build and run in separate directory

Peter O'Gorman peter at pogma.com
Wed Feb 15 09:09:43 EST 2006


Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Peter O'Gorman <peter at pogma.com>:
> 
>> | SCMFILES = $(shell find ${top_srcdir}/src -name test -prune -o -name
>> '*.scm' -print )
>>
>> Why not just use ${abs_top_srcdir} so the .scm files will have 
>> absolute paths?
> 
> 
> [warlord at cliodev src]$ grep abs_top_srcdir ../build/intl-scm/Makefile
> [warlord at cliodev src]$
> 
> Um, because there is no such thing?

Autoconf will make the substitution if you put

abs_top_srcdir = @abs_top_srcdir@

in your Makefile.am

Honest :)

(autoconf-2.59 here)

Peter


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