Re: APIVERSION

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

Akim> As you can see, here I rely on aclocal spitting its lib dir, so
Akim> that I can go by hand in there, and steal its macros.  Now, it
Akim> is answering the non version'ed directory, and my stuff is
Akim> failing.

Tom> We have to print the non-versioned directory as that is where
Tom> we'd prefer 3rd party macros to end up.

I understand this bit.

Akim> I need some reliable way to get this directory.  This is very
Akim> important, as autoreconf must be able to rely on this some day.

Tom> You can use `aclocal --version' and then parse the results.

OK, I'll do that.  Thanks!

Tom> Let's get rid of aclocal for automake 1.7.  Can we do it?

I think we can, as soon as we really have time to work on it :(
That's really the main problem.  2.53 ought to have been out since
weeks :(