On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 04:47:01PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Packages that install Autoconf macros should use
>
> $ aclocal --print-ac-dir
> /usr/share/aclocal
>
> to install their macro files.
Are you saying packages that install autoconf macros should use the
result of "aclocal --print-ac-dir" to install their macro files?
Perhaps they *should*, but if they, in practice, *don't*, that doesn't
help. For example, GTK+ 1.2.8 doesn't, so that means Ethereal cannot
rely on the GTK+ macros being installed where "aclocal" will find them
by default; you might want to suggest to the GTK+ folk that they do so,
but, until they do so, we still have to force aclocal to look in
"/usr/share/aclocal", and, even if they do, we'd still have to force
aclocal to look in "/usr/share/aclocal" until such time as either
1) every version of a UNIX-compatible OS out there on which
Ethereal can be built and in which aclocal doesn't, by
default, look in "/usr/share/aclocal" is no longer in use or
can no longer support Ethereal
or
2) Ethereal no longer supports those versions of GTK+ that
install autoconf macros elsewhere then in the directory
reported by "aclocal --print-ac-dir".
