Re: autostuff.HOWTO

[Tom Tromey <tromey cygnus com>]

John> Now all I have to do is to figure out how to get configure to be
John> able to find the GNOME_INIT and GNOME_X_CHECKS macros, and I'll
John> have this document about where I want it.

In a nutshell, the appropriate .m4 files must be visible to aclocal.

The Gnome sources do this by having a `macros' subdir in each module
that holds the .m4 files.  Then it arranges things so `aclocal -I
macros' is always run.

Another approach would be to install the .m4 files into
.../share/aclocal, where `...' is the prefix used when aclocal was
built.  The latest version of aclocal has a --print-ac-dir option that
will print this information.  I don't know how widely this version has
spread yet.


These macros aren't currently installed anywhere.  I have no idea if
they ended up in an RPM.  I have never looked at the RPMs.

Tom