Re: [PATCH 1/2] AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR: accept more than one argument

[Stefano Lattarini]

On 09/20/2012 11:31 PM, Jack Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Stefano Lattarini
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Another ping.  Automake 1.13 will need to know the interface of this
>> new Autoconf feature in order to integrate with it correctly, and start
>> deprecating ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS (in documentation only until Autoconf 2.70
>> is out; after that, also with warnings in the 'obsolete' category).
> 
> I've been out of the loop on this one, but if ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is going
> to go away, how do you specify that you want to pass --install to
> aclocal?
> 
You don't, since that's generally a bad idea; see:

   <http://debbugs.gnu.org/9037>

Once ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is deprecated, what we need to do is to improve
'distcheck' to verify that all third-party '.m4' files necessary to
re-bootstrap you package are actually distributed.  If they are not,
'distcheck' will fail, and the user can be advised to re-bootstrap the
package manually using "aclocal --install".

Regards,
  Stefano