Hi Eric, > Is the bug that > gnulib-tool outputs relative paths, and then bootstrap changes the > relative directory structure which breaks those paths?
Yes. gnulib-tool computes the appropriates number of ../ (see variable testsbase_inverse and its use in AM_CPPFLAGS). The purpose of passing options like --tests-base to gnulib-tool is so that it can construct Makefile.am files with appropriate references between each. No one is supposed to change the directory structure after building Makefile.am files; that's simply not going to work. 'bootstrap' should be more careful to not change the directory levels. > That is, should gnulib-tool be outputting $(top_builddir)/._bootmp/lib, > rather than ../../.. It's better to get away with the minimum of variables. Moving directories around after running gnulib-tool was never supported and would be an insane requirement. It's better if you fix 'bootstrap' to not create an additional level of directories. Bruno
