Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 21:14:17 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Robust shell-based test for DJGPP?
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> From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 19:11:13 +0100
> 
> > > Example:
> > > AC_CONFIG_HEADER(foo.h:foo.hin)
> > > AC_CONFIG_FILES([po/Makefile.in:po/Make-in foo.spec:foospec.in)
> > 
> > This is a different, even if related, issue.  Are you saying that the 
> > IFS=: etc. is used to parse these specs?
> Exactly! And that's why I don't want ot use ac_pathsep for this.

It's a pity that a variable which took such an effort to add to
Autoconf is not used for the purpose it was intended.

> > configure scripts should be called with --srcdir=/dev/d/src form of file 
> > names, otherwise lots of other places in the configure script will fall 
> > apart.
> Just the snippet discussed above, actually.

No, there are complex configure scripts, with several scripts in
subdirectories, where this causes more breakage.

> > I don't think I understand what does Emacs add to this problem.  Can you 
> > elaborate?
> Emacs's configure forces srcdir to be absolute:
> 
> == snippet from emacs 20.7's configure.in

Ah, you are talking about the configure script distributed with
Emacs.  It isn't used for the DJGPP build at all, so you don't need to
bother about it too much.