On 19/01/2022, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > the ACLOCAL_PATH functionality is useful (adding search dirs after -I), > but a bit unwieldy as an env var. any reason we can't add a command line > option for this ? call it --aclocal-path ? or --extra-system-acdir ? > or some other other boring name ? > > for context, when cross-compiling, autotools (i.e. automake) tend to be > installed in the system (i.e. /usr/), while all the libraries & macros > being built against are found in a separate sysroot (e.g. ~/sysroot/). > we want to insert that ~/sysroot/usr/share/aclocal path after the set > of -I flags from the package, but before /usr/share/aclocal. > -mike
FWIW another option besides the env var is to create a third directory, and put a file called "dirlist" in it with two lines: /path/to/sysroot/usr/share/aclocal /usr/share/aclocal Then you can use the --system-acdir=/path/to/that/directory option for aclocal to have it search both places. Cheers, Nick
