Re: macros/ dir

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Changwoo Ryu <cwryu@adam.kaist.ac.kr> writes:
> I feel some m4 macros in macros/ are useful for non-gnome apps.  In
> fact I use them very often in my acinclude.m4, for non-gnome programs.
> 
> My question is, why should the macro/ dir be included for every gnome
> packages?  gnome-libs could just install the m4 files to any
> share/aclocal directory.
> 
> I have been tired of copying macros/ dir to my local gnome package.  I
> need more convenient *.m4 solution..

One reason I'm not comfortable with installing the *.m4 files is that
`aclocal' complains loudly (and quits) if it finds two copies of the
same macro in its search path.

- Hari
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