Re: Site Macro Directory

[Mark D. Roth]

On Fri Jul 19 11:55 2002 +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> Actually, what exact use do you have in mind?  I suppose you are
> thinking about `m4_include([my-autoconf-extension.m4])' right?

Yes.


> If this is what you have in mind, I much prefer
> 
>         `m4_include([autoconf/my-autoconf-extension.m4])'
> 
> If you look at the various includes in the package, they are all
> prefixed.  This is much safer.  I would prefer this approach to be
> kept.  For instance because it perfectly makes sense of an Autoconf
> program to include M4sugar or M4sh stuff.

That's fine with me, but why is this different from the
--include-env-var case?  You had wanted different environment
variables to be searched for the different tools (autoconf, autotest,
etc) so that they searched different directories.  If using
tool-specific subdirectories is sufficient, why not just use a single
environment variable for the search path and use tool-specific
subdirectories there as well?

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