On Sunday 06 November 2011, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I install my own versions of m4, autoconf, automake, libtool, etc.,
> using --prefix=/p, and I put /p/bin earlier in PATH than /usr/bin, etc.
>
> Because of that, I've always had to initialize
> /p/share/aclocal/dirlist to contain /usr/share/aclocal.
> Until today, I did it like this, so that uses of macros not
> installed in my private hierarchy would still be found:
>
> mkdir --verbose -p $(aclocal --print-ac-dir)
> echo /usr/share/aclocal >> $(aclocal --print-ac-dir)/dirlist
>
> Now I see that I must explicitly list /p/share/aclocal, too,
> presumably before any other directory name,
>
That's weird; if I'm not mistaken, m4 files from ${acdir} should take
precedence over those from directories listed in ${acdir}/dirlist ...
> so I've done this:
>
> mkdir --verbose -p $(aclocal --print-ac-dir)
> printf '%s/share/aclocal\n' /p /usr >> $(aclocal --print-ac-dir)/dirlist
>
I don't understand why this should be needed ...
> With that, all of the tests on automake.master pass once again.
>
... and I'm baffled by the fact it indeed works.
Could you please try running a libtool-requiring test passing `--verbose'
to the aclocal invocation there, to see what happens?
Thanks,
Stefano
