On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:15:32PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > Joe Orton wrote: > > Hi Max, > > > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:09:48PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: > >> Below are the patches, one to apr and one to apr-util, revised to use > >> PrintPath. > > > > I think it's useful to allow finding libtool.m4 in odd places without > > requiring an aclocal installation - since this can be done with a very > > simply change I've committed it rather than your patch. Hope this works > > for you: just set $LIBTOOL_M4 appropriately. > > It's a slight improvement, but not by much. > > This means that every user of any distribution using auto-version-selecting > autotool wrappers will need to set an environment variable.
Ah, does CygWin use an autoconf wrapper which tries to guess whether it should use 2.5x or 2.13 like Debian do/did? > This is like configure asking you to manually set things which it could test > for. > > Shall I redo my patch to incorporate use of the LIBTOOL_M4 variable, or is > the idea of using aclocal, even only optionally, simply not acceptable for > some reason? I don't care strongly either way about the aclocal patch either way, so I didn't commit it. If someone else wants to commit it they don't need my approval. :) Regards, joe
