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Re: Handling of extra macros
From: |
Keith Marshall |
Subject: |
Re: Handling of extra macros |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Dec 2005 23:20:52 +0000 |
On Thursday 01 December 2005 9:10 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 21:38 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > >>> "RB" == Ross Boylan <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > RB> 5. The autoconf manual has no index entry for aclocal. There is one
> > for RB> aclocal.m4, and the text refers to aclocal. Is aclocal
> > deprecated?
> >
> > aclocal is part of Automake, not autoconf. The Automake manual
> > documents aclocal and explains how to handle local macros properly.
>
> Thank you. For the record, the file "acinclude.m4" is automatically
> included.
I thought I'd previously seen this documented somewhere, but a search in
autoconf 2.59's texinfo manual fails to turn up the reference :-(
> It seems odd that a routine part of using autoconf requires automake. I
> realize technically aclocal is not required to use autoconf, but my
> understanding is that it's use is routine.
FWIW, I routinely create an aclocal.m4 for my projects, but I've never used
aclocal to create it. My tool of choice for this job is vim[1] -- it gives
me complete control over what gets included :-)
Regards,
Keith.
[1] substitute your own favourite editor name here.