[OT] Re: ok that nearly works.

[Paul Davis <pbd Op Net>]

>do you have pkg-config installed? If the answer is yes, it is very likely
>that aclocal can't find pkg.m4. Did you make sure that pkg.m4 got installed
>in the right place or that you've set ACLOCAL_FLAGS appropriately?

just a side note: ACLOCAL_FLAGS is a badly designed hack.

if a makefile ever realizes that you need to rebuild configure from
configure.in, it will run aclocal *without* ACLOCAL_FLAGS being passed
as an argument. if your build process relies on ACLOCAL_FLAGS being
passed to aclocal, then the automatic rebuilding of a configure script
will not work.

i cannot understand why aclocal does not use an enviroment variable to
define a search path. i submitted a patch to its maintainers 10 months
ago to do this, and used this version myself until it recently made
life harder for me because many people working with/on my code didn't
have the patch.

--p