_build/sub and distcheck

[Harlan Stenn]

So I notice that in automake-1.15 the distcheck stuff is now begin built
in _build/sub/. I am generating some files for our test framework that
want to access stuff in srcdir.

I have these .in files using @srcdir@, but with the change from _build
to _build/sub this expansion is no longer working.

This doesn't seem to be documented at
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html .

How do I "make it go" again with 1.15?

[Peter Johansson]

Post by Harlan Stenn
So I notice that in automake-1.15 the distcheck stuff is now begin built
in _build/sub/. I am generating some files for our test framework that
want to access stuff in srcdir.
to _build/sub this expansion is no longer working.

@srcdir@ should expand to ../.. in _build/sub/Makefile, so it should
still work. What am I missing?

Cheers,
Peter

[Harlan Stenn]

Post by Peter Johansson

Post by Harlan Stenn
So I notice that in automake-1.15 the distcheck stuff is now begin built
in _build/sub/. I am generating some files for our test framework that
want to access stuff in srcdir.
to _build/sub this expansion is no longer working.

@srcdir@ should expand to ../.. in _build/sub/Makefile, so it should
still work. What am I missing?

I'm not sure, but we found a way to make it work. If it bites us again
I'll dig deeper.

H