Re: [gnome-db]autoconf question for making libgda (gob_check)

["Roger Pilkey" <rpilkey magma ca>]

Reinhard Müller said (in part):
> AFAIK aclocal per default only looks in a single directory for the .m4
> files, and that is in most distros the /usr/share/aclocal directory.
>
> "aclocal --print-ac-dir" tells you the directory where aclocal searches
> the .m4 files.
>
> Unfortunately, most packages don't install the .m4 files where they are
> needed. So you will probably have to copy *.m4 from
> /usr/local/share/aclocal to /usr/share/aclocal.

and Rodrigo Moya said (in part):
>this is the problem, aclocal does not look at that directory to look for
>macros. So, you've got 2 possible solutions. One is to copy that gob.m4
>file to /usr/share/aclocal, or either to use the *don't remember its
>name* environment variable to tell aclocal where to look for macros.

Thanks, I copied the gob.m4 file from /usr/local/share/aclocal to
/usr/share/aclocal and aclocal found it.

Roger