Re: Including local macros with ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Rohnny,

* Rohnny Moland wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:46:13PM CET:
> 
> I am trying to include my own local m4 macros to a project. In the automake 
> documentation I read that the preferred way to do this would be to add the 
> following line to the Makefile.am file: 
> 
> ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
> 
> ..where m4 is the directory where I put my macros. Unfortunately when I run 
> aclocal, the macros in the m4 directory are not added to aclocal.m4. Am I 
> missing something here?

Are there by any chance lines like this
| m4_include([m4/your_macro_file.m4])

at the end of aclocal.m4?  Then everything should work fine.
Oh, or are you invoking aclocal directly?  Then you should do
  aclocal -I m4

ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS are only respected by the rebuilding rules put in
Makefile.in and by autoreconf.

> If I add the macros to acinclude.m4 it works fine.
> 
> I am using SuSE 9.2 and automake 1.9.1-4.

Regards,
Ralf