Re: suggestions about AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

[Braden McDaniel]

On 4/22/09 12:13 PM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > On 4/21/09 1:35 PM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I started adding some m4 macros to my program, that I put in the m4
> > > directory in my sources, and that will be installed during the make
> > > install.
> > >
> > > I then added
> > >
> > > aclocaldir = $(datadir)/aclocal
> > > aclocal_DATA = ax_boost_base.m4 ax_boost_regex.m4
> >
> > Unless you're Boost, you shouldn't be installing these.
>
> well, but my library needs boost regex library, so I was planning to
> write an autoconf macro that not only searches for my library but also
> for boost regex library...

If you really want to do that, you need to change the names of the 
files, the macros themselves, and any public shell variables in the 
macros so that you do not conflict with versions of these macros someone 
else might install.

But you really should just use pkg-config instead.

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