On 25.02.2010 00:03, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Michael Biebl <[email protected]> writes: >> [reproduction recipe] > > Thank you for the additional information. You still did not > provide a direct answer to my questions from the cited email. > Could you do that? Here they are again: > > To me, it seems like it would be reasonable for aclocal to create > the "m4" directory if it is being asked to copy files into it, > that is, if aclocal is being invoked with --install. But > autoreconf as far as I can tell never invokes aclocal with > --install, so this would not help.
If m4 does not exist at the time aclocal is run and --install is not given, maybe aclocal should simply issue a warning and proceed? Simply failing at this point is counterintuitive imho. > Actually, I am now a little confused. If your package does not > have any of its own M4 files in m4/, and it does not use > libtoolize, and it does not expect --install to be used with > aclocal, then where are the files in m4/ eventually coming from? > Perhaps I just misunderstand (sometimes the autotools still catch > me by surprise after many years). I do use libtool, but libtoolize is run *after* acloclal. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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