On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:35:38PM -0500, Nick Bowler wrote:
>...
> (1) Packages that use ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to specify one or more macro
> directories and do *NOT* use AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR at all. You
> agreed earlier that this was a good choice for packages using
> more than one macro directory. I suspect it's also quite common
> in packages that aren't using libtool. For example, GNU Gettext
> appears to be in this category.
>...
Even libtoolize does not enforce AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR but just issues a
warning when only ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is present, so that might be present
even in lintool-using packages with only one macro dir.
I begin to agree with you that AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR should be left alone
by autoconf, with the downside that removing support for the legacy
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS/AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR from aclocal or from libtoolize
would not be reasonable to do within the next 5-10 years.
cu
Adrian
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