>>> "Philip" == Philip Willoughby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] Philip> I take your point about moving the functionality into Philip> autoconf being the right thing to do, but this doesn't Philip> solve my problem right now. (I haven't heard any Philip> mention of it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTW). http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2002-07/msg00099.html Philip> In any case, the problem isn't going to go away, Philip> autoconf will also need some way of finding Philip> package-installed macros. OK, perhaps ACLOCALPATH Philip> isn't the right name for it in that eventuality, but Philip> it's got to exist and it's got to be called Philip> something... I agree. I'm just explaining why *I* don't want to commit time to this. If you want to implement this new feature, please do it in a way that won't require further work. - It's a change so it needs a ChangeLog entry - It's a new feature, so - it needs a NEWS entry, - it must be documented, and - it should be exercized by the test suite. - It interact with existing features (-I option and dirlist), so that needs to be documented too. - aclocal is run throughout the test suite, so you should make sure setting this envvar will never lead to spurious failures. - All the above will be large enough to require you sign a copyright disclaimer before it can be installed. See http://sources.redhat.com/automake/contribute.html for other details. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
