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Re: best aclocal include practice wanted
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: best aclocal include practice wanted |
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Sat, 04 Mar 2006 22:52:04 +0100 |
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Thomas Porschberg <address@hidden> writes:
> what is the recommended way to include project-written m4 macros ?
Many projects use a directory named m4, but there is no common convention.
> I include the macros in <project-root>/config/m4
> and call in autogen.sh "aclocal -I config/m4"
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> The config directory itself is configured in configure.ac
> with AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(config).
This macro is unrelated to the placement of the input files for aclocal.
> Is there something wrong with this approach ?
No.
> What could be done better ?
> How should autoreconf find the m4-macros in such a case ?
Add this line to the toplevel Makefile.am:
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I config/m4
Andreas.
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