Re: Making a path absolute portably

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Andrew Price wrote:
> It sounds like you want $abs_top_srcdir
>
> Relevant documentation: 
> https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/Preset-Output-Variables.html

Usually when people use a term like 'absolute' I assume that they mean 
the real underlying path, removing the influence of symbolic links, so 
that it reflects the operating system's opinion of the path. If a 
computed path based on the specified path to the configure script is 
ok, then $abs_top_srcdir is great.

Bob
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