Hello Sam, * Sam Steingold wrote on Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:26:53AM CEST: > Some packages install "build-aux" files (config.guess, config.sub, > install-sh et al) so that their add-ons can rely on them. > It would seem to be a relatively easy: > > ===== configure.ac > AC_PATH_PROG(foo_path, foo) > aux_dir=`foo -print-config-dir` > AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR($aux_dir) > =====
Automake currently expects the argument to AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR to be a shell literal. That might be a regression, I haven't checked. I'd need to look though what it takes to lift the restriction (there might also be assumptions like that in Autoconf). Cheers, and thanks for the report, Ralf
