Unix Programming - ./configure

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./configure

concern

2004-03-22, 8:34 pm

Hi all,
(autoconf v2.13, gnu/linux)
With a simple autoconf/automake test, I got following error while ran
../configure:
#./configure --srcdir=/home/me/test/src
....
checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: ls -t
appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken alias in your environment
....

The src tree likes below:
/home/me/test
configure
Makefile.in
....
src/main.c

If I move main.c to /home/me/test, no error.
If I change AC_INIT(main.c) to AC_INIT(src/main.c) while src/main.c exists,
no error.

My question is that why option --srcdir=dir doesn't work?

TIA

-s