AC_CONFIG_LINKS([sub/file:file]) with abs srcdir creates a bad link

[Peter Breitenlohner]

Hi Eric,

here another Autoconf 2.65 bug, reported by TeX Live builders:

AC_CONFIG_LINKS([sub/file:file])

creates a wrong symlink when used with an absolute srcdir (different from
builddir). As far as I can reconstruct 2.64 did it differently but also
wrong.

Attached is a small tarball demonstrating the problem. Everything is as
expected with a relative (explicit or implicit) srcdir, but
  /path/to/src/configure --srcdir=/path/to/src
creates a dangling symlink.

Regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>

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