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

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:00:23AM -0400, Chris Pickett wrote:
> 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.

well, I'm not sure.  autoconf -I might be used to find version.m4,
which defines the package's version, and which would be m4_include'd
from the main configure.ac.

What if someone decides to place version.m4 to the subdirectory m4/
together with other .m4 files?

Your change to autoreconf would then lead to ``aclocal -I m4'',
and if the serial number is the same, aclocal might fail to use the
newer copy in the system dir.

Implementing ACLOCAL_PATH is much safer solution.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan