$srcdir suffices.

It's "the name of the top source directory, assuming that the working
directory is the top build directory"; when running the configure
script, the working directory will, in fact, be the top build directory.

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index ade0e52bc23ed4295ca71b3a6330d0aede5261b7..abda7ae4e4fd1a742f6387f526d1c036cf477289 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -9124,7 +9124,7 @@ $as_echo "$as_me: executing $ac_file commands" >&6;}
   case $ac_file$ac_mode in
     "default-1":C) if test -f .devel; then
        echo timestamp > stamp-h
-       cat $ac_top_srcdir/Makefile-devel-adds >> Makefile
+       cat $srcdir/Makefile-devel-adds >> Makefile
        make depend
 fi ;;
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7c8ea35188e8d1c58ebb3bb067d7a09cea9941d4..1fb36e2ba80f1be2d25c9fd173df36b35ce59829 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -992,7 +992,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
 AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS([if test -f .devel; then
        echo timestamp > stamp-h
-       cat $ac_top_srcdir/Makefile-devel-adds >> Makefile
+       cat $srcdir/Makefile-devel-adds >> Makefile
        make depend
 fi])
 AC_OUTPUT(Makefile tcpdump.1)