Re: You should add the contents of `m4/argz.m4' to `aclocal.m4' messages

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Alexandre,

Sorry for the delay.

* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:42:31PM CET:
> 
> libtoolize: You should add the contents of `m4/argz.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
> libtoolize: You should add the contents of `m4/lt~obsolete.m4' to 
> `aclocal.m4'.
> 
> IMHO, these messages are confusing for three reasons:
> 1. They magically appeared during the second run.
> 2. These files contains macros that are not used _this_ configure, so need
>    not be added to aclocal.m4.
> 3. In this case aclocal.m4 is generated by aclocal, so the user should never
>    be asked to touch this file.

Agreed on all counts.

> Is there a way to get rid of these messages in order not to
> confuse people?

Yes, we should fix that before the release.  I'm not even sure whether
we even have a pending patch for this.

> For instance maybe libtoolize could guess that
> aclocal is being used, checking the presence of ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
> or looking into aclocal.m4?

Would be an idea, too.  Patch welcome in any case.  ;-)

I hope to be done with my round of Autoconf testing very soon; I plan to
then start working on Libtool backlog, piling high :-( 

Cheers,
Ralf