__FILE__ (Re: [PATCH] framework for building modules externally)

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:41:20PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> 
> PS: The current use of __FILE__ may also add extra unexpected size: For 
> packaging, configure is often run outside of $srcdir with a absolute 
> path name. This may result in long __FILE__ strings, like
> /home/maintainer/packaging/grub/tmp/grub-1.96+20081105-1/src/grub-1.96/kern/disk.c

This has annoyed me for a while.  Do you know a proper fix?

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