Re: tracing from aclocal

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

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

[...]
 Akim> I used to import _all_ the macros at this stage.  IIRC, I was building
 Akim> an aclocal.m4 with an m4_include for each file, and then, using this
 Akim> aclocal.m4, do something like:

 Akim> ~/src/am % autom4te -l autoconf --trace=AC_DEFUN:'$f:$1' m4/*.m4
[...]

BTW, I just realized that with such a scheme, if some of the
/usr/share/alocal/*.m4 files contains an AC_PREREQ, it will
apply even to packages that do not use the macro.

Maybe we should also fight for AC_PREREQ to be used *inside*
macros.  Fortunately this seems less common.  I only have two
of these on my system: 
  glib-gettext.m4
  uintmax_t.m4
(plus many in Automake's own macros)

-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz