Hello Harlan. On Tuesday 15 March 2011, Harlan Stenn wrote: > http://www.mail-archive.com/automake-patches@gnu.org/msg00873.html > describes a patch I once asked for. I did a search in the > automake-1.11.1 codebase and I don't see any mention of ACLOCAL_PATH in > there at all. > Correct: the patch has never been applied.
BTW, that old patch is supersed by this newer patch series: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00089.html> which is unfortunately still pending review (or at least aknowledgement). > My interest in an environment variable to handle this case (for the > reasons Ralf mentioned there, which are pretty much the same reasons I > mentioned in June of 2002) has again resurfaced. > > I'm not seeing any environment variable to do this in 1.11.1 - am I > missing something, or is there a new way I should be handling this? > Unfortunately, the limitations described in the message you linked still holds in the current automake version. But I think (hope?) that the newer pending patch I referred to above will be applied before the next relase. HTH, Stefano
