The mpkg folks apply a patch to automake to allow it to support
ACLOCAL_PATH.
This is most useful for places that want to support multiple versions of
libtool and keep the libtool installation independent of any installed
versions of automake.
I don't have easy access to any of my CVS automake repos; has this patch
been applied already? If not, could it be applied?
The patch is:
--- aclocal.in.old Tue Jul 17 07:36:23 2001
+++ aclocal.in Tue Aug 28 22:19:34 2001
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@
exit 0;
}
+ # Add directories from ACLOCAL_PATH
+ push @dirlist, split ':', $ENV{ACLOCAL_PATH};
+
# Search our install directory last.
push (@dirlist, $acdir);