Re: [OT] Re: ok that nearly works.

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Paul Davis <pbd Op Net> writes:

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

ack.

> 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 have never seen configure being rebuilt from a Makefile. Does automake
support this feature? All the Makefiles I have seen generated from 
autotools only call automake for you if configure.in changes. From my 
experience the developer has to call autogen.sh himself whenever 
configure.in has been changed.

> 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.

I agree this would be a better solution.


Salut, Sven