Re: aclocal disaster

[Erik Andersen <andersen xmission com>]

Quoting Adam Keys <akeys@post.cis.smu.edu>:
> "Bruce Z. Lysik" wrote:
> > I know that part of this confusion has to do with previous autoconf
> > and automake being installed via RPM, so things were in
> > /usr/local/share, rather than /usr/share where things were generally
> > expected.
> 
> reinstalling is 'the windows way'.  don't need that here.  you'll probably want
> to copy your .m4 files from /usr/share/aclocal to /usr/local/share/aclocal, then
> run aclocal.  that cleaned up my problems when i yanked my debian packages and
> installed auto* from source.
> "Bruce Z. Lysik" wrote:
> 

Actually, you don't need to copy anything to usr local.  Just put
    export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /usr/local/share/aclocal"
into someplace like /etc/profile and then everything will work just fine
without all of that annoying copying.

 -Erik

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