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

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Chris Pickett wrote on Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 05:00:23PM CEST:
> On Mon, April 3, 2006 4:57 am, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> >
> > You cannot modify the system-wide dirlist file, so you decided to modify
> > the top Makefile.am of every package.
> 
> Well, just for the packages that need the local macro.

> > I don't think this is the best solution possible; it is better to make
> > a wrapper (or alias) around aclocal (and aclocal-1.x), which would exec
> > /usr/bin/aclocal -I /home/chris/temp/share/aclocal $@

Hmm.  The first `-I' argument to aclocal is special, in that it, if it
specifies a relative path, may be used to `--install' local macros.
So a better wrapper would be this:

#! /bin/sh
test -n "${ZSH_VERSION+set}" && alias -g '${1+"$@"}'='"$@"'
exec /usr/bin/aclocal ${1+"$@"} -I /my/additional/absolute/path
# end of wrapper

> 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.

I agree that it would be better if there was a better way than such a
wrapper.  But I think passing the -I flag is troublesome; I admit to
not have checked this, though.

Cheers,
Ralf