Re: cvs build problems and automake/conf/etc

[Kirby Baker <kbak net-link net>]

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> I have found _no_ documentation on this problem.  (The problem is even worse if
> you mix/match between RPM based '/usr' installs and your own '/usr/local'
> installs.)  It is a show-stopper for cvs based development, so I'd like to know
> how people work around it.  There are some obvious kludges, like manually
> copying any of the missing '.m4' files around to the various 'aclocal' subdirectories,
> but isn't there a better way?

best solution I have so far is before you start building any CVS stuff,
using /opt/gnome, is to symlink /opt/gnome/share/aclocal to your main
aclocal dir.  I have RH5.2 from cheapbytes, and so my symlink is to
/usr/share/aclocal.  I have only had warnings since then about not
enabling cross platform support.  I can live with those.

Kirby Baker