deal with symlinks in your PWD breaking gnumake dependencies

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 78a6f6734bc5..6f997124f794 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
         if 0;
 
 use strict;
+use Cwd ('cwd', 'realpath');
 
 sub clean()
 {
@@ -131,6 +132,16 @@ chomp $system;
 
 sanity_checks ($system) unless($system eq 'Darwin');
 
+# since this looks crazy, if you have a symlink on a path up to and including
+# the current directory, we need our configure to run in the realpath of that
+# such that compiled (realpath'd) dependency filenames match the filenames
+# used in our makefiles - ie. this gets dependencies right via SRC_ROOT
+my $cwd_str = realpath(cwd());
+chdir ($cwd_str);
+# more amazingly, if you don't clobber 'PWD' shells will re-assert their
+# old path from the environment, not cwd.
+$ENV{PWD} = $cwd_str;
+
 my $aclocal_flags = $ENV{ACLOCAL_FLAGS};
 
 if ($aclocal_flags eq "")