On 09/20/2012 11:31 PM, Jack Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 12:53 AM, Stefano Lattarini > <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com> 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
