Package: automake Version: 1:1.10.1-3 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.10
Currently the only way to add extra directories for aclocal to search in seems to be to list them in /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist. I find this is really quite unacceptable and I would like the following dirs, files and environment variables to do this: /etc/aclocal/aclocal.conf - for aclocal itself to list its default dir(s) /etc/aclocal/aclocal.conf.d/*.conf - for packages providing .m4 files to list their default dirs /etc/aclocal/aclocal/*.m4 - place for the sysadmin to drop in .m4 files ~/.aclocal.conf - for per-user system m4 file directories ~/.aclocal/*.m4 - default per-user system m4 file directory $ACLOCAL_PATH - override the aclocal system paths, ending in : adds instead of overrides like MANPATH does The configuration files could have stuff like this to manipulate the dirs if the config format is simply perl: push (@system_includes, '/usr/share/autoconf-archive/'); Alternatively a config file format with = and += or something would work. Please forward this upstream if automake 1.11 does not yet fix it. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages automake depends on: ii autoconf 2.61-7 automatic configure script builder ii autotools-dev 20080123.1 Update infrastructure for config.{ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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