Re: [PATCH] {maint} aclocal: more granularity in acdir overriding

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Tuesday 06 September 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> Before this change, using the `--acdir' option caused aclocal to
> redefine both the directory of automake-provided m4 macros and the
> directory of third-party system-wide m4 macros.  With this change,
> we deprecate the `--acdir' aclocal option, and introduce two new
> options `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir', to allow for more
> granularity.
> 
> The main purpose of this change is to make the setup of aclocal
> under the testsuite more similar to the setup in the real-world
> usages (that is, with acdir != acdir-APIVERSION), to allow better
> testability of features like `dirlist' file (and hopefully of a
> soon-to-be-reproposed ACLOCAL_PATH support), and to allow the
> rewriting of few test cases to have them work also when doing
> a "make installcheck" (this is for the testsuite-work branch only,
> though).
> 
> BTW, the previously-proposed patch series introducing ACLOCAL_PATH
> support can be found in this thread:
> 
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00089.html>
> 
> and one can find in there a suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues that seems
> to show that the idea of the present patch might indeed be sane and
> useful after all :-)
> 
>  ``If the only reason is that --acdir doesn't accurately reflect
>    what would happen after 'make install', maybe we can instead
>    fix --acdir?''
>  <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00146.html>
> 
> I will push the present patch in a couple of days.
> 
Patch pushed.

Regards,
  Stefano