Re: AC_DEFINE problem

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * address@hidden wrote on Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 10:40:34AM CEST:
> > hi,
> > i am not on my computer at home right now and don't have cvs on this to
> > download it, but i got this from sourceforge
> > it's package "epsilon" in enlightenment 17 cvs
>
> Hmm.  I pulled
> http://enlightenment.freedesktop.org/fetch.php?file=epsilon-0.3.0.006.tar.gz
>
> which I assume is what you mean.  Running
>  autoconf
> inside the top source directory works fine Autoconf-2.59.  However, do
> note that aclocal.m4 contains some macro definitions which are not
> supplied by either Automake nor Libtool, and are not part of Autoconf
> either, nor of the epsilon package.  So if you ever run aclocal, you
> have to make sure to have sources for these macros available.

Isn't this (i.e., aclocal.m4 containing private macros[*] without their sources)
something that should be VERY STRONGLY discouraged. After all, running
"reautoconf" may (does?) invoke aclocal.

[*] I'm not talking about m4 macros installed by some prerequisite package under
/usr/share/aclocal (or rather `aclocal --print-ac-dir`).

regards
Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>