On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:26:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Patrick Welche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Isn't the long term goal "aclocal must be subsumed into autoconf"? What
> > is preventing this from happening sooner rather than later?
> 
> I never really understood why one would want to use aclocal rather than
> m4_include with separate .m4 files unless one was using Automake.

Just so that it sorts out the macro dependencies automatically? (So I
can just use LT_INIT, and not need to work out whether or not
m4_include(lt~obsolete.m4) is necessary...)

Cheers,

Patrick


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