Re: substitution vs expansion in Makefile.am

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Harlan Stenn wrote:

> You can use: ../common/mySleep.c in your foo_SOURCES list.

If the sources are in /home/user/src and you go to /home/usr/build
and do "../src/configure" the above will be completely wrong.

The correct way to do it is to use "$(top_srcdir)/common/mySleep.c"
which will work under all circumstances.

Erik
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