Hello Robert, Christoph, all, * Robert Schiele wrote on Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 06:24:48PM CEST: > > The following patch does provide the feature as described above and I > would like to see it in future automake releases. Comments, > suggestions, questions, or rants are always welcome.
Automake-1.9b has support for wildcards in dirlist entries. So, this: echo "$aclocaldir/dirlist.d/*" >> $aclocaldir/dirlist and then having packages add a subdirectory below $aclocaldir/dirlist.d would be an alternative approach. That said, I think not requiring third-party packages' aclocal file directories be below $aclocaldir is probably a good idea from a distributor's POV. If Alexandre likes it, then what's missing from the patch before it can be applied is a ChangeLog entry, an addition to the "For example" part in the documentation right after your patch hunk would be nice, a testsuite addition to make sure the feature works as intended, (note that I'm not implying that you have to do this work), and a copyright assignment of the author of the patch. Cheers, and thanks for your work, Ralf
