Re: include bindir in AUTOM4TE default

[Jens Petersen]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:

> >>> "juhp" == Jens Petersen <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  >> What about something like this:
>  >> if test -z "$AUTOM4TE"; then
>  >> AUTOM4TE = `echo "$0" | sed s/@address@hidden/@autom4te-name@/`
>  >> fi
>  >> or
>  >> dir=`echo "$0" | sed -e 's,[^\\/]*$,,'`
>  >> : address@hidden@}
>  >> That should obey PATH if the user typed `autoconf', but
>  >> use `/mumble/autom4te' whenever the user ran `/mumble/autoconf'.
> 
>  juhp> Ok, but this doesn't really solve the PATH dependence
>  juhp> problem Ralf and I are discussing in the default case.
> 
> I thought it did.  I've probably misunderstood something, then,
> but I don't know what.

Or maybe I misunderstood your patch.  But it seems to be
that in the PATH case it doesn't solve the problem of
another autom4te lying ahead of the desired one in the
path.

If you have multiple version of autoconf installed (say
autoconf-2.13, autoconf-2.52, autoconf-2001-12-06, etc),
which autom4te gets selected when you run one of these.

Perhaps I don't understand the architecture of autoconf
well enough yet.

Jens