Re: Small patch

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> "Harry" == Harry Liu <address@hidden> writes:
Harry> Hi.  Would you consider applying this patch, which allows the
Harry> AC_MACRODIR environmental variable to override the default
Harry> place to look for macros?  It is also consulted by autoconf,
Harry> and it would nice to have a uniform way to specify an alternate
Harry> macro directory.

Tom> I'm reluctant to do this.

Tom> However, I think Akim probably has a better idea than me if this
Tom> is desirable.  Akim?

It's always the same problem: do we want to solve the issue _now_, or
we delay this issue until Autoconf handle it?

Personally I consider aclocal should never have existed.  Of course it
was necessary because Autoconf did not provide what was needed, so
it's been a good thing, but in a perfect world, this task should be
addressed by Autoconf.

Some time Autoconf will.  I don't know when :(

Therefore, I'm reluctant at making aclocal bigger, as people should
not get dependent on it.



As far as the current patch is concerned, I appreciate your willing
not to pollute the environment via reuse, but conversely it means
you're just addressing your own problem: not everybody will accept
putting non Autoconf macros in the Autoconf lib directory.

I probably suits you, but it seems inadequate to me.

And given that we don't want to add new envvars...