Hi, I have several project using autoconf/automake. I also have several helper scripts I use in all my makefiles. If I made any improvement in one of these scripts, I have to copy that script to all my projects. It is quite inconvenient and error-prone.
I think it would be nice if automake handles my helper scripts like install-sh, missing, test-driver and other automake aux files. In such a case all I need is just run automake -af to get helper scripts updated. The only problem is that automake searches for missed aux files in the *single* directory, /usr/share/automake-1.16 (*). If I use automake -af --libdir=$HOME/aux it breaks automake (it can't find other files, e.g. am/header-vars.am). So, my question: Is there any way to provide 3-rd party aux files? --- (*) Putting my aux files to /usr/share/automake-1.16 is obviously a bad idea. Even if I create package (rpm/deb/whatever else), it will depend on automake version, so I will have to create almost identical packages for automake 1.16, 1.15, ...
