Hello,
On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:00:23AM -0400, Chris Pickett wrote:
> It could also be nice if autoreconf passed the -I flag to aclocal. I
> don't think it would matter if dirs not containing macros were in the
> list. Just an idea.
well, I'm not sure. autoconf -I might be used to find version.m4,
which defines the package's version, and which would be m4_include'd
from the main configure.ac.
What if someone decides to place version.m4 to the subdirectory m4/
together with other .m4 files?
Your change to autoreconf would then lead to ``aclocal -I m4'',
and if the serial number is the same, aclocal might fail to use the
newer copy in the system dir.
Implementing ACLOCAL_PATH is much safer solution.
Have a nice day,
Stepan
