Hello, On an FHS-style system, all macros are picked up from /usr/share/aclocal. Conversely, on a Stow/Nix-style installation, macros are to be found in /foo/automake/share/aclocal, /bar/guile/share/aclocal, /baz/pkg-config/share/aclocal, etc.
It seems to me that the latter calls for user environment-specific settings, which an $ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable would handily support [0]. WDYT? Bruno rightfully noted the importance of having a reproducible way of producing tarballs, and user-specific environment settings appear to go counter this goal. However, there will always be a need for this kind of setting on Stow/Nix-style systems, AFAICS. Thanks, Ludo’. [0] In fact Nixpkgs/NixOS has a wrapper around ‘aclocal’ that does exactly this (see <https://svn.nixos.org/repos/nix/nixpkgs/trunk/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/builder.sh>.)