Re: in src configuration broken on 8/4 or 8/5

[Phil Edwards <phil at jaj dot com>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:37:45PM -0500, Loren James Rittle wrote:
> In article <20030828164142.GA21802@disaster.jaj.com>,
> Phil Edwards<phil@jaj.com> writes:
> 
> > I thought the new tools handled this case themselves now, but it seems we
> > still need to do some hand-holding.
> 
> OK, I volunteered to help fix such upgrade problem (sorry I didn't
> notice it was related ;-).  I think I found it.
[...]
> Then notice how we no longer use toprel to "properly" compute toplevel_srcdir:

Yep.  Deliberate decision on my part, since I thought at the time this
was unneeded now.

I started working up a patch this afternoon while waiting on other stuff,
but never came back to it.


> Phil, do we want to add back in the old hack in some form?  Or is
> there suppose to be a way to do this properly in the new
> automake/autoconf?  We may be defeated by use of older auto-tools at
> top-level.

I /think/ there's supposed to be a Proper Way[tm], but clearly we're not
using it.

Patch in progress.  When we finally get it checked in, I'll keep a close
eye on ref5's results.


Phil

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