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 ge
Hi Stefano,
> I say we should instead follow the UNIX practice of giving the user enough
> rope to hang himself, but advise him not to do so
This is a good attitude for the many features with which a developer can
only harm himself and which cause no harm to others.
But with $ACLOCAL_PATH he can
Hi Bruno.
On Friday 08 July 2011, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > ... having a reproducible way of
> > producing tarballs, and user-specific environment settings appear to go
> > counter this goal.
>
> Not only that. Also, it is important for distributors to be able to
> regenera
Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> ... having a reproducible way of
> producing tarballs, and user-specific environment settings appear to go
> counter this goal.
Not only that. Also, it is important for distributors to be able to
regenerate the 'configure' file of packages, for a variety of reasons.
They c
tags 9026 patch
thanks
On Friday 08 July 2011, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hello,
>
Hi Ludovic, thanks for the report.
> On an FHS-style system, all macros are picked up from
> /usr/share/aclocal. Conversely, on a Stow/Nix-style installation,
> macros are to be found in /foo/automake/share/aclocal,
Hello,
On an FHS-style system, all macros are picked up from
/usr/share/aclocal. Conversely, on a Stow/Nix-style installation,
macros are to be found in /foo/automake/share/aclocal,
/bar/guile/share/aclocal, /baz/pkg-config/share/aclocal, etc.
It seems to me that the latter calls for user enviro
On Wednesday 06 July 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:32:56AM CEST:
> > Oops, sorry. Fixed by the attached patch. OK for maint? I'll wait
> > the customary 72 hours before pushing.
>
> Thanks. OK, but please remove all the comments about tar u
