Re: autoreconf 2.54 does not pass -I command line argument to aclocal

[Akim Demaille]

| If the Makefile.am contains a line of the flavor ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS - one
| can specify the location of the m4 subdir with -I m4, etc.
| 
| Autoreconf allows one to specify the -I option - but it is not passed to 
| aclocal. The following patch does just that...
| 
| Index: autoreconf.in
| ===================================================================
| RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/bin/autoreconf.in,v
| retrieving revision 1.103
| diff -c -r1.103 autoreconf.in
| *** autoreconf.in     13 Sep 2002 06:59:56 -0000      1.103
| --- autoreconf.in     17 Sep 2002 22:56:59 -0000
| ***************
| *** 152,157 ****
| --- 152,158 ----
|     $autoconf   .= join (' --prepend-include=', '', @prepend_include);
|     $autoheader .= join (' --include=', '', @include);
|     $autoheader .= join (' --prepend-include=', '', @prepend_include);
| +   $aclocal    .= join (' -I ', '', @include);
|   
|     # --install and --symlink;
|     if ($install)

Hi,

I don't understand your report.  autoreconf looks for ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
and does pass that to aclocal.  Passing autoreconf's -I to aclocal is
wrong: same syntax, agreed, but different semantics.