From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: More fun with vcswitness
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:50:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ha987d60.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ty1u0cwqcu.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:46:41 -0500
>
> Jan Djärv wrote:
>
> > 12 jan 2014 kl. 22:12 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> >
> >> srcdir should always be a relative file name, like ../foo, never
> >> absolute.
> >
> > Is this the srcdir used when compiling in a separate directory?
>
> Yes, you are right, it may or may not be absolute.
>
> Personally I don't see a problem, since '$srcdir' is single quoted, so
> that it gets expanded only in src/Makefile, as Andreas said.
Perhaps using abs_srcdir will allow to use the same string everywhere,
avoiding the need to sometimes use ".." and sometimes quote.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-13 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-12 20:07 Mopre fun with vcswitness Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 20:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-12 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 20:18 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 20:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 20:46 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 21:02 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 21:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 21:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 22:19 ` More " Jan Djärv
2014-01-13 2:46 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-13 3:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-01-13 4:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 10:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-13 11:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-13 11:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-01-13 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-13 17:37 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-13 19:03 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-13 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
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