Re: Documentation flaw in autoconf

[Eric Blake]

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According to Michaël Grünewald on 5/29/2008 4:21 PM:
| Autconf will substitute in Makefile's templates many ``Preset Output
| Variables''. Some values of these variables represents path to
| directories in the file system. The documentation (section 3.3.1) does
| not tell whether these paths are absolute or relative,

Which section did you have in mind for this improvement?  There is no
3.3.1 in the 2.62 manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html

|
| By the way, it could be useful to have some variables representing paths
| to directories and being guaranteed to be absolute. (I think especially
| to top_srcdir).

There is - use abs_top_srcdir.

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Preset-Output-Variables.html#Preset-Output-Variables

|
| Here is the version of autoconf I use:
|
|  > autoconf --version
|  autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61

You may want to consider upgrading to 2.62.

|
| P.S.: I just noticed that Autoconf's documentation refers to
| address@hidden' whereas address@hidden' shall
| now be used.

Where in the manual did you find that?  The correct address should be
'address@hidden' and not bug-gnu-utils.  I don't see the
bug-gnu-utils anywhere in the 2.62 manual.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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