Re: ACLOCAL_PATH patch?

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hello Harlan.

On Tuesday 15 March 2011, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00873.html
> describes a patch I once asked for.  I did a search in the
> automake-1.11.1 codebase and I don't see any mention of ACLOCAL_PATH in
> there at all.
>
Correct: the patch has never been applied.

BTW, that old patch is supersed by this newer patch series:
 <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00089.html>
which is unfortunately still pending review (or at least aknowledgement).

> My interest in an environment variable to handle this case (for the
> reasons Ralf mentioned there, which are pretty much the same reasons I
> mentioned in June of 2002) has again resurfaced.
> 
> I'm not seeing any environment variable to do this in 1.11.1 - am I
> missing something, or is there a new way I should be handling this?
>
Unfortunately, the limitations described in the message you linked
still holds in the current automake version.  But I think (hope?) that
the newer pending patch I referred to above will be applied before the
next relase.

HTH,
  Stefano