Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-10-05 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Hello autoconfers and automakers. I have two modest proposals about the issues discussed here. Not sure if they really make sense, though, so criticism is welcome. On Wednesday 15 September 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:11:17PM CEST: > > At any rate,

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-16 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
On 16 Sep 2010, at 03:11, Eric Blake wrote: > At any rate, it seems like maintaining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am is > redundant - how hard is it to teach automake to have aclocal _automatically_ > include directories mentioned inside AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, to avoid the dual > file maintenance h

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:11:17PM CEST: > At any rate, it seems like maintaining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in > Makefile.am is redundant For simple setups, yes. How common are non-simple setups? I don't know for sure, but I would guess any package with more than a couple of configure s

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/15/2010 03:04 PM, Jack Kelly wrote: At any rate, it seems like maintaining ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am is redundant - how hard is it to teach automake to have aclocal _automatically_ include directories mentioned inside AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, to avoid the dual file maintenance headache?

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-15 Thread Jack Kelly
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 09/15/2010 12:59 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:15:13PM CEST: >>> >>> On 09/15/2010 04:37 AM, langdead wrote: Whether does "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS= -I @path" only work for "Makefile.am"? >>> >>>

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2010-09-15 Thread Eric Blake
[adding bug-automake] On 09/15/2010 12:59 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:15:13PM CEST: On 09/15/2010 04:37 AM, langdead wrote: Whether does "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS= -I @path" only work for "Makefile.am"? In the context of autoreconf (the only part o

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2008-03-25 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Pickett on 3/21/2008 2:01 PM: | Hi Chris, and adding bug-automake, Hi again (and replies can drop all but autoconf-patches), | Thanks for the report. However, I'm not sure how best to proceed - | ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS is Automake's dom

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Pickett
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Pickett on 3/21/2008 10:58 AM: | Hi, Hi Chris, and adding bug-automake, | | I had AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) in configure.ac and a macro from the | archive in m4/ that wasn't getting m4_include'd at the end of ac

Re: need to set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS along with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

2008-03-21 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Chris Pickett on 3/21/2008 10:58 AM: | Hi, Hi Chris, and adding bug-automake, | | I had AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) in configure.ac and a macro from the | archive in m4/ that wasn't getting m4_include'd at the end of aclocal.m4 | after I