[debbugs-tracker] bug#7988: closed (the manual suggests installing macro files to hard-coded location)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: the manual suggests installing macro files to hard-coded location Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:19:19 -0500 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7

Hello,

In the manual, http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Invoking-aclocal,
I read about the `--print-ac-dir' option:

Prints the name of the directory that
aclocal will search to find third-party .m4 files. When this option is given, normal processing is suppressed. This option can be used by a package to determine where to install a macro file.

I find the last sentence a bit strange because to me that sounds like Automake suggests that packagers should install macro files in a hard-coded directory not relative to $(prefix). IIUC that
that contradicts the discussion in section "Install to Hard-Coded Locations"

http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths

Cheers,
Peter

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> On Wednesday 28 September 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > OK, now we have ACLOCAL_PATH support implemented into maint, so it's time to
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> Pushed now.  I'm thus closing this bug report.
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