Variable Expansion

[Fausto Sanchez]

Hi everyone,

Any idea why the $(top_srcdir) does not get expanded to the final Makefiles 
when
running on linux. Everything works when I run on a Solaris system, but when 
I use the
same directory on a Linux system on the final Makefile I don't see the 
$(top_srcdir). In addition, I get errors when configure runs on linux. I am 
using the same version of
libtool, automake, and autoconf on Solaris and linux. Here are the errors:

creating libtool
checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
/auto/repygb/fas/vegas/QT/VegasSW/configure: top_srcdir: command not found
/auto/repygb/fas/vegas/QT/VegasSW/configure: top_srcdir: command not found
checking for ANSI C header files... no
/auto/repygb/fas/vegas/QT/VegasSW/configure: top_srcdir: command not found
configure: creating ./config.status

The reason it gives me three errors is because I reference top_srcdir three 
times
in the configure.in file as $(top_srcdir). So in my configure.in file I 
have the following:

INCLUDES=" -I$(top_srcdir)/isan/include 
-I$(top_srcdir)/isan/platform/common/include "

When I run configure on a Solaris 2.8 system, the INCLUDE line in the 
Makefile looks like
this:

INCLUDES =  -I$(top_srcdir)/isan/include 
-I$(top_srcdir)/isan/platform/common/include


On Linux RedHat 7.1 I get the following, without even a trace of $(top_srcdir)

INCLUDES =  -I/isan/include -I/isan/platform/common/include

I tried using {} instead of (), no braces at all, but no success. Any 
ideas? thanks in
advance and thank you all very much for the previous responses I've gotten 
to my
other questions.

fausto..