Hello Peter, all, and sorry for the delay, * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 04:22:32PM CET: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >Through testing I found out again that DejaGNU does not cope with white > >space in absolute directory names anyway, regardless of srcdir being > >relative or absolute. That obviates my first point. Remains only the > >fairly minor src+build-tree relocatability point.
> I remember a problem with gcc's 'make check' that could be related. Some > tests failed when `pwd -L` was different from `pwd -P`, presumably due to > the two different srcdir's. > > I could avoid this problem by first doing 'cd `pwd -P`'. Thanks for mentioning this. I asked on the bug-dejagnu list back then, and have an answer now: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.dejagnu.bugs/345/focus=348 I think we should change Automake semantics here and provide a relative srcdir only. That would mean, the first patch I suggested in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.bugs/5230/focus=5464 Stefano, would you like to rewrite your testsuite addition for this? Thanks, Ralf
