On 10 Feb 2011, at 20:56, Eric Blake wrote: >> On Mac OS X 10.6.6, I have: >> $ /usr/bin/autoconf --version >> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61 >> This comes with the system. >> >> $ /usr/local/bin/autoconf --version >> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68 >> The latter was installed by ./configure && make. > > However, that did NOT install aclocal, which is part of the automake > package.
That is right - I had it on my old installation. When adding it, it works. All new stuff ends up in /usr/local/. >> In addition, adding to autoreconf the argument -B /usr/local/share/aclocal, >> it is not passed on to aclocal. > > 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. Hans
