Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

[Eric Blake]

On 09/15/2010 03:04 PM, Jack Kelly wrote:
> > At any rate, it seems like maintaining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am is
> > redundant - how hard is it to teach automake to have aclocal _automatically_
> > include directories mentioned inside AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, to avoid the dual
> > file maintenance headache?
>
> If you do this, where will you specify the `--install` flag to
> aclocal? Still in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS?

I use 'autoreconf --install', which avoids needing to put --install in 
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.  But if --install is something that you have grown used 
to sticking in ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, then yes, it would probably be nice to 
have a configure.ac counterpart that automake would understand to mean 
automatic addition of --install even for plain 'autoreconf'.

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