On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 18:39, Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Just to be sure, you are not including >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00091.html >> are you? >> > No, not yet at least. > > Because, if I'm not reading it wrong (which I might be doing in fact, since > I've only taken a perfunctory look at it so far), it introduces an > incompatibility between the "system acdirs" added with ACLOCAL_PATH (which > can be used to override automake macros) and those added with dirlist > (which on the contrary cannot be used to do so).
Yes (and that's on purpose: ACLOCAL_PATH is typically used by a user which has newer versions of libraries installed, so they need their directories to override everything). Unfortunately, I do not have time right now to look at autotools. :( Paolo
