Re: aclocal buglet? Was: Re: more cvs problems
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>
- To: Alexander Jolk <jolk ap-pc513b physik uni-karlsruhe de>
- Cc: Soren Harward <soren cinternet net>, Gnome Main List <gnome-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: aclocal buglet? Was: Re: more cvs problems
- Date: 18 Jul 1998 23:22:41 -0600
Alex> Now, if aclocal finds a duplicate macro definition, it won't
Alex> write aclocal.m4 in the end.
Alex> Personally, I do consider this an aclocal buglet because
Alex> sometimes one would want to overwrite `system wide' aclocal
Alex> macro definitions woth `private' ones.
I don't really see this as a bug. In fact, I believe I added the
error in response to actual bug reports (though I don't recall
precisely). It seems to me that this kind of shadowing is almost
always an error. I suppose I wouldn't be against a patch to add an
option to disable the error.
Tom
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