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Re: autogen.sh issues
- To: Craig Brozefsky <craig at red-bean dot com>
- Subject: Re: autogen.sh issues
- From: Ian Grant <Ian dot Grant at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 08:21:18 +0100
- cc: guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, Ian dot Grant at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk
Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com> writes:
> Jim Blandy <jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com> writes:
> > I think the behavior we want is for aclocal to always use the .m4
> > files in the source tree, and never the installed files. I think it's
> > a bug that aclocal doesn't permit shadowing of this sort. It makes it
> > impossible to do the kind of thing that Guile is trying to do, doesn't it?
>
> I had JUST come to the same conclusion 45 seconds ago when looking at
> the patches Roman Hodak gave me for m68k "stubs" in qthreads.m4.
>
> The workaround would be to copy all he files in the acdir to some temp
> dir, copy your qthreads and guile m4 files into it, and then invoke
> aclocal with it's acdir set to the temp dir. Rinse when done.
Or how about
aclocal --acdir=. -I `aclocal --print-ac-dir`
Ian
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