Hello, * Hans Aberg wrote on Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:13:45PM CET: > > aclocal doesn't understand -B, so autoreconf doesn't pass it on to > > aclocal (although getting aclocal to learn -B needs to be resolved on > > the automake list first before we worry about teaching autoreconf in the > > autoconf package about honoring it). > > > > Can you get by with the -I option instead? > > This worked, but that seems to add the new files after the old ones. > Therefore, in this situation, -B would be more natural. I think that > then the argument is simply dropped to aclocal, rather confusingly.
As another workaround, you can create a $automake_prefix/share/aclocal/dirlist file containing the line /usr/local/share/aclocal so your new aclocal searches the directory. But yes, I guess aclocal should learn -B. Thanks, Ralf
