Re: [Fwd: autoreconf and aclocal options (-I, --ac-dir)]

[Chris Pickett]

On Mon, April 3, 2006 4:57 am, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> you are using system-wide Automake together with *.m4 files from packages
>  installed locally (under your home directory).
>
> You cannot modify the system-wide dirlist file, so you decided to modify
> the top Makefile.am of every package.

Well, just for the packages that need the local macro.

> I don't think this is the best solution possible; it is better to make
> a wrapper (or alias) around aclocal (and aclocal-1.x), which would exec
> /usr/bin/aclocal -I /home/chris/temp/share/aclocal $@

[...]

> But for the time being, use the wrapper.

Thanks, I will.

It could also be nice if autoreconf passed the -I flag to aclocal.  I
don't think it would matter if dirs not containing macros were in the
list.  Just an idea.

Cheers,
Chris