Re: [PATCH] {master} aclocal: deprecate ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, trace AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR instead

[Stefano Lattarini]

[Adding bug-autoconf]

Reference:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2012-07/msg00011.html>

On 07/04/2012 11:23 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> On 07/04/2012 11:03 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>
>> Please revert this change.
>>
> No.  Have you read my plan above?  If the use case of multiple local m4 macro
> dirs is actually legitimate and needed in the real world (as it seems to be
> according to your report), what I'm going to do is to implement a new macro
> AM_EXTRA_LOCAL_M4_DIRS.
>
On a second thought, why not have AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR accept more than
one argument?  Already suggested in:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2011-12/msg00037.html>
Better than to have Yet Another Macro ...

Doing this in aclocal *right now* would be trivial, and then it would
just be a matter of updating the Autoconf documentation to state that
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR can accept several whitespace-separated arguments
(that's because AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR expands to nothing and has no side
effects -- it's only there to be traced by other tools like aclocal
and autoroconf, as stated in the autoconf documentation).

Autoconfers, WDYT?

Regards,
  Stefano