Re: Site Macro Directory

[Paul Eggert]

> From: "Mark D. Roth" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 17:38:40 -0500
> 
> Currently, I need to copy each macro I maintain into the aclocal.m4
> file of each package that needs to use the macro.

I use Automake's "aclocal" for this.  It generates aclocal.m4
automatically from m4/*.m4.  In my case, the m4/*.m4 files are often
links to the "canonical" versions.

> The only semantic problem that I see with this is how autoconf would
> decide which files in the site macro directory to read.

I think "aclocal" pretty much does what you want.
E.g., "aclocal --print-ac-dir", and "aclocal -I DIR".