From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: More fun with vcswitness Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:50:47 +0200 Message-ID: <83ha987d60.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20140112200736.C29B33811D4@snark.thyrsus.com> <87zjn1ar8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83k3e47vlq.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389585073 14016 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2014 03:51:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 03:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 13 04:51:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W2YYY-00080A-3Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 04:51:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2YYX-0007QX-PJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:51:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49027) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2YYO-0007QE-SB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2YYJ-0002A1-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:51:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:39692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W2YYI-00029l-Q8; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MZB00100M42H400@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:51:00 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MZB001SXMP0IN00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:51:00 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:168274 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel > Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:46:41 -0500 >=20 > Jan Dj=C3=A4rv wrote: >=20 > > 12 jan 2014 kl. 22:12 skrev Eli Zaretskii : > > > >> srcdir should always be a relative file name, like ../foo, never > >> absolute. > > > > Is this the srcdir used when compiling in a separate directory? >=20 > Yes, you are right, it may or may not be absolute. >=20 > 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.