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Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Paul Eggert wrote:
>
>> It'd be nice if Emacs 'configure' allowed arbitrary source-directory
>> names.
>
> s/Emacs/any project using autoconf/

Not necessarily, those not using abs_srcdir could go along with it.

Andreas.

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