Re: Why doesn't ...

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 03:40, name wrote:

> Why doesn't installation copy libtool.m4 to aclocal?
> 
Assuming you are talking about CVS HEAD (libtool 1.5a, future 1.6
release) this is because libtoolize now copies libtool.m4 from its own
data directory into your macro directory.

"Your macro directory" is a directory in your source to hold macro files
that would've gone into aclocal.m4.  Call it something like 'm4' and
specify it with 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' in your configure.ac and add
'ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4' in your top-level Makefile.am.

(If you don't do this, your top-level source directory will simply be
used instead.)

This is consistent with "The Future of `aclocal'" as outlined in the
Automake manual chapter of the same title.


The great advantage of this is that it ensures that libtool.m4 and
ltmain.sh are matched versions, running libtoolize and forgetting to run
aclocal, or the reverse, used to be the source of many developer's woes
in the past.

Scott
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