Re: "configure --help=recursive" only works in top_srcdir

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:26:21PM CEST:
> 
>       * lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_LN_S_PREPARE): Avoid errors when `.'
>       is not writable, use 'cp -p' in this case, in the hope that it
>       will not actually be needed.  Still try removing files, in case
>       of other write errors.
>       * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_SRCDIR): For ac_confdir,
>       use $as_myself, not $0.
>       (_AC_INIT_HELP): For --help=recursive, if the subdir does not exist,
>       try again in the the source tree.  This change assumes that the
>       subpackage configure script is capable of running --help=recursive in
>       the source tree.
>       * tests/torture.at (Configuring subdirectories, Deep Package):
>       Adjust tests to expose both issues, also try invocation as
>       `sh configure ...' and plain `configure ...' with PATH adjusted.
>       * NEWS, THANKS: Update.
>       Report by Hans Ulrich Niedermann.

I have applied this now.

Cheers,
Ralf