Re: --amdir=DIR

[Lars J. Aas]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:30:08AM +0200, Jens Krüger wrote:
: What is the meaning of the '--amdir=DIR' option?

To specify another dir for the Automake templates you usually find in
/usr/share/automake/ or /usr/local/share/automake/

: Should it overwrite the AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR entry in
: the 'configure.in' file? 

AUX_DIR is something else - it's an option for having the subsidiary build-
system scripts stored in a subdir of the software project you're working
on instead of on the root.  The auxdir scripts consists of missing,
mkinstalldirs, install-sh and so on...

Don't set up AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(aux) - files/dirs named "aux" cause problems
on DOS systems.

  Lars J