Re: Patch: FYI: 1.4 versioned install

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 11:44:34AM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> I guess they'll run into problems when 1.7 comes out.  Not sure what
> to do about that.

No idea what you meant here.  Do you think that versionned binaries
will fail to help?

>       * m4/Makefile.am (m4datadir): Use APIVERSION.
>       * aclocal.in ($APIVERSION): New global.
>       (parse_arguments): Use APIVERSION.
>       (default_acdir): New global.
>       Don't explicitly pass acdir to scan_m4_files.

Are these changes -- moving the m4 files to another subdirectory and
tweaking aclocal to follow (hence changing the effect of --acdir) --
absolutely necessary?

Off-hand I can't see any reason to perform them.  Nothing prevent
these files from staying where they were; this shouldn't hinder a
parallel install of 1.6.

On the contrary, some 1.4-dependent setups do rely on these files
belonging to the aclocal/ directory, and some people do use the
--acdir switch in a way which is incompatible with the above change.
For an example, see
  http://sources.redhat.com/ml/automake/2002-04/msg00273.html
I believe we can find worse, but it's probably enough to justify
not moving these files.