On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:13:21PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 20:29, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > > Why are the libtool macros being installed to $(pkgdatadir) rather than > > $(datadir)/aclocal? > > Because aclocal is slowly being deprecated, and will eventually vanish > entirely. Managing Autoconf macros really isn't a job for Automake. > > The new utopia is to create a directory within your source called "m4" > (or some such) and in configure.ac declare AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) > > Then when you run libtoolize, it will copy the appropriate m4 files into > this directory for you. > > One day a version of Autoconf will use these, but for now when you run > aclocal it'll add an "m4_include" line to aclocal.m4 for each of these > files (rather than including them verbatim).
Ugh. So *every* package providing useful 3rd-party autoconf macros must be copied locally to the package using them? -- albert chin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool