Hi Guido, * Guido Draheim wrote on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 08:39:34AM CEST: > Stepan Kasal wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:17:23AM +0200, Guido Draheim wrote: > >> [...] I am making it up as a patch over standard 'aclocal' - it just > >> adds a few options that imitate automake options "-a" and "-c". > > > > the CVS version of aclocal has an option --install which is very > > similar to this. Does it meet your needs? > > Almost. > (a) Can't go and install cvs version everywhere. > Some patch over current distributed automake is a nice thing.
Well, then a patch to do what Automake-1.10 will do would be more consistent and less disruptive, right? > (b) Cvs version does a plain copy of the file - a symlink does > tell me which version was picked / where it is / and makes > faster turnarounds when making up ac macros. Sounds like a good idea. Could you be bothered to post a patch to implement this (on top of the current CVS version)? > (c) Looking at the cvs version I doubt that it will work as > there is a missing m4_include in the $install else path. I don't see this at a glance -- care to point out where this is? Cheers, and thanks, Ralf
