way of detecting absolute file names.
+2007-08-20 Benoit Sigoure <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
+
+ * doc/autoconf.texi (File System Conventions): Index the proper
+ way of detecting absolute file names.
+
2007-08-20 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* build-aux/config.guess, build-aux/config.sub,
price of rejecting valid but oddball Posix file names like @file{a:\b}),
you can check for absolute file names like this:
+@cindex absolute file names, detect
@example
case $foo_dir in
[\\/]* | ?:[\\/]* ) # Absolute