Re: top_builddir vs. builddir

[Paul Eggert]

Stepan Kasal <address@hidden> writes:

> --- lib/autoconf/status.m4    21 Dec 2004 14:24:01 -0000      1.48
> +++ lib/autoconf/status.m4    29 Jan 2005 10:02:39 -0000
> @@ -958,6 +958,8 @@
>    esac
>  ])dnl
>  
> +  test -z "$ac_top_builddir" && ac_top_builddir=.
> +
>    if test x"$ac_file" != x-; then
>      AC_MSG_NOTICE([creating $ac_file])
>      rm -f "$ac_file"

This doesn't look right to me.  ac_top_builddir looks like this:
"../../../../".  That is, it's of the form (../)*.  So it is a file
name prefix, not a file name, and it should be empty if it's the
current directory.

Perhaps the name of ac_top_builddir is wrong, instead of its value?