Hi Bruno, %reldir% without a following slash expands to a dot, and %canon_reldir% without a following underscore expands to an underscore.
Suggested new text: A special feature is that if the fragment is in the same directory as the base Makefile.am (i.e., %reldir% is .), then - %reldir% together with a following slash will expand to empty, - %canon_reldir% together with a following underscore will expand to empty as well. Thanks much. I added the dot/underscore information you wrote as well. I pushed it, hope it looks ok ... -k @@ -10911,12 +10911,20 @@ Similarly, @code{%canon_reldir%} is replaced with the canonicalized is a synonym for @code{%canon_reldir%}. A special feature is that if the fragment is in the same directory as -the base @file{Makefile.am} (i.e., @code{%reldir%} is @code{.}), then -@code{%reldir%} and @code{%canon_reldir%} will expand to the empty -string as well as eat, if present, a following slash or underscore -respectively. +the base @file{Makefile.am} (i.e., @code{%reldir%} is @code{.}), then: + +@table @code +@item %reldir% +together with a following slash expands to the empty string, otherwise +it expands to a dot; + +@item %canon_reldir% +together with a following underscore expands to the empty string, otherwise +it expands to an underscore. + +@end table