Re: Absolute directories for tests.

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> 
> >>> "David" == David Kirkby <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  David> The problem is that if run from the 'tests' directory, this runs okay,
>  David> as the paths given in the test '../tools/src/mycksum' and
>  David> '../examples/cop1.bmp' are correct relative to that 'tests' directory.
>  David> However, if 'make distcheck' is run from the top directory of the
>  David> package, the tests fails as those paths are wrong.
> 
> To account for VPATH-builds, you should consider that sources files
> lie in `$srcdir', not `.'.  Only built files are in the current directory.
> 
> The above two paths are probably better written
> `$srcdir/../tools/src/mycksum' and '$srcdir/../examples/cop1.bmp'.

Thanks for that. I will re-write the tests later in the format you
suggest. 

> Makefiles define $(top_srcdir), but this isn't exported to
> tests.  Probably because nobody needed that yet.

It might well be useful to people if it was added. 


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