bug#9026: Supporting $ACLOCAL_PATH?

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Stefano,

> Also, a conscientious user would anyway add
> `--install -I m4' to his ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, so that third-party m4 files
> would be copied in the local m4 directory (and thus automatically
> distributed by automake).

Hey, the --install option is something I need to mention in the GNU gettext
documentation. I wasn't aware of it up to now.


2011-07-08  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * gettext.texi (aclocal): Recommend the use of aclocal's --install
        option.
        Suggested by Stefano Lattarini <address@hidden>.

--- gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi.orig Fri Jul  8 23:22:44 2011
+++ gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi      Fri Jul  8 23:22:39 2011
@@ -7990,6 +7990,18 @@
 @noindent
 to your top level @file{Makefile.am}.
 
+If you are using GNU @code{automake} 1.10 or newer, it is even easier:
+Add the line
+
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+ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = --install -I m4
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+
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+to your top level @file{Makefile.am}, and run @samp{aclocal --install -I m4}.
+This will copy the needed files to the @file{m4/} subdirectory automatically,
+before updating @file{aclocal.m4}.
+
 These macros check for the internationalization support functions
 and related informations.  Hopefully, once stabilized, these macros
 might be integrated in the standard Autoconf set, because this

-- 
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