Re: Patch for autoconf/145

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello, Derek!

> > Unfortunately, a trivial AC_SUBST([SET_VPATH], [VPATH = @address@hidden) 
> > doesn't
> > work - Autoconf actually makes a great effort to protect the second
> > argument from expanding.
>
> Of course, since configure knows the value of $srcdir anyhow, 
> AC_SUBST([SET_VPATH],
> [VPATH = $srcdir]) will work.

Not quite. It will only work properly for the top-level directory, since
srcdir is different for every directory if you are compiling outside of
the source tree.

Regards,
Pavel Roskin