Re: PATCH: allow another subdirectory level from toplevel

[Paul Eggert]

Kelley Cook <address@hidden> writes:

> In the combined tree there are directories like ./winsup/mingw/mingwex
> are three levels removed from the toplevel yet do have configure.in.
> Autoconf's AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIRS currently only look's two directories
> underneath to check for install.sh to discover the toplevel.  This
> tiny patch allows it to look three levels beneath.

I dunno; even 3 is not enough in general.  The real problem here is
that the list is hardwired.  Changing it to some other list doesn't
really fix that.

How about coming up with a mechanism so that it's parameterizable?
The default can be ., .., ../.. as now.