Re: include bindir in AUTOM4TE default

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "juhp" == Jens Petersen <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

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

I don't see how this can happen unless you have a broken
installation (e.g. autom4te installed without autoconf).
Otherwise both files are installed in the same directory, the
PATH search will always stop in the first directory that
contains them, hence you can't have an autom4te ahead of the
desired one.

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

Say we have:
/autoconf-2.13/{autoconf,autom4te}
/autoconf-2.52/{autoconf,autom4te}
/autoconf-2001-12-06/{autoconf,autom4te}

then

% PATH=/foo:/autoconf-2.52:/autoconf-2.13
% autoconf                      # runs autom4te, i.e., autoconf-2.52/autom4te
% /autoconf-2.13/autoconf       # runs /autoconf-2.13/autom4te
% /autoconf-2001-12-06/autoconf # runs /autoconf-2001-12-06/autom4te

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz