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Re: Feature request


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Feature request
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 10:50:09 +0200
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Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:

> When building software with installable .m4 files (libtool, pkgconfig,
> gtk+, etc.), if each software program is installed to a separate
> directory, aclocal must be used like so:
>   $ aclocal -I [path to libtool .m4 files] \
>   -I [path to pkgconfig .m4 files] ...
>
> How about an environment variable that aclocal would query that does
> the job of -I? pkgconfig uses the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable giving
> locations for pkg-config to query for .pc files. Doing something
> similar with aclocal would make automating use of aclocal in build
> scripts much easier.

Put the options in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in the toplevel Makefile.am and
autoreconf will take care of everything.

Andreas.

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