[Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@xxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris writes:

> What you want is to make "aclocal" (and anything else that searches for
> ".m4" auto* files) *always* search in all the directories that, on the
> system on which it's being run, happen to contain installed macros; an
> application using auto* to build its config script by looking for those
> macros can't use AC_SET_PREFIX, as the package isn't in a position to
> know where those macros might be hidden, unless it just goes for the
> brute-force approach I suggested in other mail, e.g. having "autogen.sh"
> just pepper the invocation of "aclocal" with "-I" flags looking
> everywhere somebody might have hidden the macros.

Packages that install Autoconf macros should use

$ aclocal --print-ac-dir
/usr/share/aclocal

to install their macro files. Then everyone finds it.


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