automatic setting of srcdir

[John A. Crow]

All -

I am using autoconf-2.13. 

It looks to me from my experiments that by default the srcdir 
output variable is set to its relative path name. That is, if I do

   ./configure

I will get @srcdir@ replaced with "."; if I do for example

  ../testdir/configure

I will get @srcdir@ replaced with "../testdir".

Is there any way to force this variable to be replaced with
its absolute path name? I have seen this happen elsewhere
with the configure script for finger.

Any guidance will be appreciated.

 - John