Re: FYI: Splitting shell.m4, tests/shell.m4, tests/m4sugar.m4

[Raja R Harinath]

Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:
> > So it's probably not such a good idea to use the same name. I'll have a
> > look whether autoupdate can (and should) be fixed.

That would explain why the testsuite works with 'make distcheck' -- it
uses srcdir != builddir, and so doesn't fall for aliasing file.
 
> Well, autoupdate doesn't pass --autoconf-dir to autoconf, but it doesn't
> help since m4sugar.m4 is included from the m4 code.

It sets $autoconf_dir before calling 'autoconf'.

- Hari
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