Re: CVS autoconf, config.{sub,guess}, and "make install"

[Peter Eisentraut]

Harlan Stenn writes:

> The current CVS autoconf does not "make install" properly if builddir !=
> srcdir.
>
> The following fragment is from man/Makefile:
>
>  ...
>  # Independent from this package.
>  config.guess.1: $(srcdir)/config.guess.x  $(top_srcdir)/config.guess
>  config.sub.1:   $(srcdir)/config.sub.x    $(top_srcdir)/config.sub
>
>  .x.1:
>         @if test -f $(top_builddir)/$*; then \

It might be worth pointing out that this fragment will fail on BSD makes
in the same way that the '.sh: configure.in' dependency fails, as
currently discussed in another thread.

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