Re: running tests under in a tests/ directory

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Peter Johansson wrote:

> > LDADD = $(top_srcdir)/yafeq/libyafeq.la
> >
> > does work. So I hope this is finally the way to do it.
> Typically .la files are built and not shipped as source, and thus appearing 
> in buildsrc. If that's the case in your set up, you should probably replace 
> top_srcdir with top_builddir.

It is not necessary to specify top_builddir because that is where the 
Makefile is written and the directory where the build is performed. 
As you say, specifying $(top_srcdir) may cause harm since it is likely 
to break VPATH builds.

Bob
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