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Re: autoreconf uses aclocal even when not needed


From: Nick Bowler
Subject: Re: autoreconf uses aclocal even when not needed
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:31:01 -0400

Hello,

On 3/22/17, Max Horn <address@hidden> wrote:
[snip]
> $ autoreconf -vif --no-recursive -I cnf/m4 .
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal -I cnf/m4  --output=aclocal.m4t
> Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at
> /sw/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326.
> autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory
>
> I can "fix" this by installing automake, but this is deeply
> unsatisfactory.  Is there a better solution?

Not sure why this is a big problem, but if you supply aclocal.m4
yourself, autoreconf will not try to run the aclocal program to
generate it.

Cheers,
  Nick



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