Re: ACLOCAL best practice

2010-11-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Ryan, * Ryan Lortie wrote on Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 05:49:57PM CET: I recently filed a bug against a freedesktop.org component because it didn't honour the ACLOCAL_FLAGS environment variable. That bug got closed, telling me to use ACLOCAL like so: ACLOCAL='aclocal -I

ACLOCAL best practice

2010-11-13 Thread Ryan Lortie
Hello, We use ACLOCAL_FLAGS in the GNOME project to specify the include directories for when we are installing into unusual prefixes. For example, say I have a GNOME setup in /home/desrt/local. If I install glib, it includes gsettings.m4 which gets installed into

Re: ACLOCAL best practice

2010-11-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On Saturday 13 November 2010, Ryan Lortie wrote: Hello, Hello Ryan. Just a quick partial reply ... [CUT] In my opinion, this is an argument for why ACLOCAL_FLAGS (or at least some ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable) Supporting ACLOCAL_PATH is a good idea IMO -- and the nice thing about it is