Re: Site Macro Directory

[Bruce Korb]

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> I'm not sure this is necessary.  No package is strictly speaking
> self-contained.  If, say, my package depends on GTK, then I rely on GTK
> being installed somewhere before I start building.  And therefore it could
> also be reasonable to assume that the gtk.m4 file with the GTK macros can
> be found before I start running autoconf.

The especially fun thing is that you cannot rely on the GTK *re*packagers
to do the right thing.  *Maybe* they would be more careful with "gtk.m4"
than they were with "guile-config", but not necessarily.  I now have
to try to find the guile config without guile-config.  Yummy.