On Tuesday 06 September 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Before this change, using the `--acdir' option caused aclocal to > redefine both the directory of automake-provided m4 macros and the > directory of third-party system-wide m4 macros. With this change, > we deprecate the `--acdir' aclocal option, and introduce two new > options `--automake-acdir' and `--system-acdir', to allow for more > granularity. > > The main purpose of this change is to make the setup of aclocal > under the testsuite more similar to the setup in the real-world > usages (that is, with acdir != acdir-APIVERSION), to allow better > testability of features like `dirlist' file (and hopefully of a > soon-to-be-reproposed ACLOCAL_PATH support), and to allow the > rewriting of few test cases to have them work also when doing > a "make installcheck" (this is for the testsuite-work branch only, > though). > > BTW, the previously-proposed patch series introducing ACLOCAL_PATH > support can be found in this thread: > > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00089.html> > > and one can find in there a suggestion from Ralf Wildenhues that seems > to show that the idea of the present patch might indeed be sane and > useful after all :-) > > ``If the only reason is that --acdir doesn't accurately reflect > what would happen after 'make install', maybe we can instead > fix --acdir?'' > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2010-11/msg00146.html> > > I will push the present patch in a couple of days. > Patch pushed.
Regards, Stefano
