Re: autoreconf and aclocal options (-I, --ac-dir)

[Chris Pickett]

Vincent Torri wrote:
> put
>
> AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(m4)
>
> in configure.(in/ac) after AC_INIT and before AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (it does 
> not work for me if I put it after AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE)
>
> and in the toplevel Makefile.am, put :
>
> ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
>
> It works for me that way :)

Well, in my case, I'm writing documentation for users that have a macro 
installed locally (the macro is provided by me) but don't have either 
root access or a locally installed Automake (either of these would 
enable them to modify aclocal's dirlist).  I spent a fair amount of time 
determining that the only way in this situation to get autoreconf to 
find the macro is ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, so I thought I would write a small 
documentation update that would have been helpful to me.

Cheers,
Chris