* Mike Frysinger wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:52:41AM CEST: > On Thursday, July 29, 2010 01:40:24 Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:20:37AM CEST: > > > So this tiny issue has been bugging me for years. Thought I report. > > > Can you please make aclocal silently ignore include directories that > > > do not exist? It bothers me that on a new system when I set my env > > > vars to have a complete tree in my ~/.local, every directory gets > > > created on demand except for share/aclocal. > > > > Yes, I accept a patch that does that for absolute paths, if it includes > > a test case. Let's see if someone beats me to it. ;-) > > but the more common case of like `m4 -I m4` would still fail ? i guess > people > could work around it by using code like `m4 -I $PWD/m4` ...
Isn't the non-existence of an in-tree directory an error usually though? (Honest question, if there are good setups that can't provide this we should reconsider.) Can we find a compromise that at least has a chance for typo detection? Thanks, Ralf
