Hi Stefano,
> Also, a conscientious user would anyway add
> `--install -I m4' to his ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS, so that third-party m4 files
> would be copied in the local m4 directory (and thus automatically
> distributed by automake).
Hey, the --install option is something I need to mention in the GNU gettext
documentation. I wasn't aware of it up to now.
2011-07-08 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
* gettext.texi (aclocal): Recommend the use of aclocal's --install
option.
Suggested by Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattar...@gmail.com>.
--- gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi.orig Fri Jul 8 23:22:44 2011
+++ gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi Fri Jul 8 23:22:39 2011
@@ -7990,6 +7990,18 @@
@noindent
to your top level @file{Makefile.am}.
+If you are using GNU @code{automake} 1.10 or newer, it is even easier:
+Add the line
+
+@example
+ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = --install -I m4
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+to your top level @file{Makefile.am}, and run @samp{aclocal --install -I m4}.
+This will copy the needed files to the @file{m4/} subdirectory automatically,
+before updating @file{aclocal.m4}.
+
These macros check for the internationalization support functions
and related informations. Hopefully, once stabilized, these macros
might be integrated in the standard Autoconf set, because this
--
In memoriam Jean Moulin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Moulin>
