On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:35:38PM -0500, Nick Bowler wrote: >... > (1) Packages that use ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to specify one or more macro > directories and do *NOT* use AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR at all. You > agreed earlier that this was a good choice for packages using > more than one macro directory. I suspect it's also quite common > in packages that aren't using libtool. For example, GNU Gettext > appears to be in this category. >...
Even libtoolize does not enforce AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR but just issues a warning when only ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is present, so that might be present even in lintool-using packages with only one macro dir. I begin to agree with you that AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR should be left alone by autoconf, with the downside that removing support for the legacy ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS/AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR from aclocal or from libtoolize would not be reasonable to do within the next 5-10 years. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed