Re: [bug-inetutils] ANNOUNCE: Daily snapshot and autobuild service

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Thanks.  Ok to install m4/autobuild.m4 too?

In acinclude.m4 please.

   Accidentally, installing it will fix the problem of having to 'mkdir
   m4' in order to build inetutils from CVS, which is nice.

I think this should be fixed in bootstrap instead.  Infact, just
issuing `mkdir m4' in bootstrap.conf should work I think; I'll try it
and if it works install such a fix.

   >    >    Any objections to installing the patch?
   >    >
   >    > My only objection is that m4/ shouldn't be used for this
   >    > macro, the macro should be put in acinclude.m4 instead.
   >
   >    acinclude.m4 is deprecated according to the Automake manual:
   >
   > Oh, I didn't know that.  That sucks, and I vehemently disagree with
   > the stated reasons as well.  But on the bright side, it doesn't sound
   > as if it is deprecated, just discouraged.  Do you know if the autoconf
   > maintainers have any plans on actually removing support for
   > acinclude.m4?

   I haven't seen any such plans, but given that many projects still have
   a acinclude.m4 I doubt it will be soon.  Still, I think GNU projects
   should follow the best-practices set by other GNU projects if
   feasible.

I disagree that splitting it into several small files is `best'
practise though.  If you have only a few macros as we do, having them
in one spot is better than putting some odd 14 files in m4/ for each
macro or something equally silly.