Re: CVS libtoolize wants to read unexisting aclocal.m4

[Gary V . Vaughan]

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On 17 Apr 2004, at 23:28, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> The day this is done, autoconf will obviously scan
> /usr/share/aclocal/ for backward compatibility.  Gettext already
> install its macros there.  IFAICT only CVS libtool doesn't.
>
> As I've already argued in
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-02/msg00014.html
> I think this change is a step backward.

Agreed.  I'll work on a patch to revert to using $prefix/share/aclocal
again.  Watch this space...

> If you install *.m4 files in /usr/share/aclocal/ again, you
> can already experiment with a `libtoolize --postautoconf'
> version of libtoolize that scan libtool from meaningful macros,
> and install the necessary auxiliary scripts.  That does not need
> any other support.  Once that is done, it should be easy to
> modify autoreconf so it uses this new libtoolize option when
> available.  (Or perhaps the autoreconf modification can wait
> until `aclocal --copy' exists.)

aclocal --copy would be a huge step in simplifying the operation of
fooize scripts.  I'd rather see that happen before other changes in
support of aclocal/autoconf integration.

> [...] I think we already discussed about the need to
> dynamically modify the include search path from inside m4
> macros.  Such feature is necessary to support
>
>   1) parallel/versioned installations
>      (e.g., multiple automake versions -- this currenlty works
>      only because aclocal knows the automake version to consider,
>      but when that functionally is moved over to autoconf we'll
>      have to indicate the version with a macro)
>
>   2) AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

Yep, that is what I want to get back to once libtool is in shape
for the next release.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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