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Documentation flaw in autoconf
From: |
Michaël Grünewald |
Subject: |
Documentation flaw in autoconf |
Date: |
Fri, 30 May 2008 00:21:04 +0200 |
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Short: path to directories may be relative or absolute, section 3.3.1 of
the documentation ignores this.
Dear GNU folks,
Autconf will substitute in Makefile's templates many ``Preset Output
Variables''. Some values of these variables represents path to
directories in the file system. The documentation (section 3.3.1) does
not tell whether these paths are absolute or relative, or if this
characteristic is unspecified. The documentation should be explicit
about this issue.
By the way, it could be useful to have some variables representing paths
to directories and being guaranteed to be absolute. (I think especially
to top_srcdir).
Here is the version of autoconf I use:
> autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
P.S.: I just noticed that Autoconf's documentation refers to
address@hidden' whereas address@hidden' shall
now be used.
--
All the best,
Michaël Grünewald
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