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.{

-- 
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pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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