Re: simple autoconf question

[Eric Gorr]

On Dec 20, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Nick Bowler <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 2011-12-20 15:35 -0500, Eric Gorr wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> What I am not sure of is how to confirm just what directories will be
>> searched for autoconf macros...? 'aclocal --print-ac-dir' still only
>> outputs '/usr/bin/../share/aclocal'
>> 
>> What is the appropriate way to make my additional search location
>> perminant? Add the call to one of the bash init files, like .bashrc?
> 
> I think doing something with your shell startup scripts is probably the
> best approach in the short term.  As I understand it, some future
> automake version should feature improved aclocal search path handling.
> 
> However, many tools invoke aclocal directly and won't get your changes
> easily.  Tools like autoreconf will use the ACLOCAL environment
> variable, if set, so you can probably do something like this (untested):
> 
>  ACLOCAL='aclocal -I/usr/local/share/aclocal'
>  export ACLOCAL
> 
>  alias aclocal=$ACLOCAL
> 

Thanks for the information.