Re: make distcheck not finding custom code generation script

[Andreas Ntaflos]

On Saturday 13 May 2006 09:54, Brian Dessent wrote:
> So the answer to your question is that you shouldn't assume that you
> are in the source tree when referring to files.  Try having your
> macro expand the path as "$(srcdir)/tools/wrapper.sh" instead of
> "../tools/wrapper.sh".  I'm not entirely sure of the correct quoting
> here, but I'm pretty sure you want it to expand as $(srcdir) in the
> final generated Makefile rule, so this might involve quoting the ('s
> and )'s in m4, I don't know.

Brian, 

I can't thank you enough for taking the time to read that long post of 
mine /and/ reply with such a detailed and well-written explanation!
And of course you are correct, having the m4 macro expand the variable 
to $(srcdir)/tools/wrapper.sh (and, along the same lines, rewriting the 
build rule to refer to $(srcdir)/foo.ice) solved that problem just 
fine!

About the quoting in the m4 macro: 

ac_foo2cpp="\$(srcdir)/tools/wrapper.sh ${ac_foo2cpp}"

was apparently the right way to do this.

It seems you replied off-list? Would you consider posting to the list 
what you wrote? Your explanation is definately worth archiving and I 
know for a fact that many of my fellow students will be having similar 
problems pretty soon.

If you don't want to I could forward your message or quote it in a 
follow-up or whatever.

Again, thank you very much! You spared me a lot of further trouble :)

Andreas
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