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Re: Site Macro Directory
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: Site Macro Directory |
Date: |
24 May 2002 12:14:20 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Mark" == Mark D Roth <address@hidden> writes:
Mark> In any event, I'll rename my proposed macro to AC_SITE_INCLUDE
Mark> to avoid confusion.
I'm really against AC_SITE_INCLUDE, as per the GCS, a package must be
self-contained (from the sources point of view). Nevertheless,
autoreconf --install --symlink is to provide the same effect. It just
bring your SITE macros into the src tree, via symlinks if required.
Mark> Actually, the more I think about the whole cache concept, the
Mark> less sense it makes to me.
Same here. Please, note also that autom4te was built so that creating
aclocal.m4f is possible. That's probably the cache you want.
Mark> Instead of a local cache, let's create a subdirectory called
Mark> `ac-package' that includes macros that the developer wants to
Mark> ship with the package. These would be treated exactly the same
Mark> way as aclocal.m4, but would provide a way for the developer to
Mark> put different macros in different files.
Exactly.
Mark> Thanks for pointing this out; I didn't realize that aclocal did
Mark> that automatically. As per my note above, I'll propose the
Mark> `ac-package' subdirectory instead.
At that time, the consensus was that the directory holding these files
is:
1. defaults to `.'
2. defaults to AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR if present
3. is the arg of AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR if specified.
Mark> * autoconf will have an AC_SITE_INCLUDE macro that causes it
Mark> to read a specific file from the site macro directory.
This is really wrong, as there is no reason for all the sites to have
the same layout.
- Re: Site Macro Directory, (continued)
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Mark D. Roth, 2002/05/25
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Russ Allbery, 2002/05/23
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Mark D. Roth, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Russ Allbery, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Akim Demaille, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Akim Demaille, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Akim Demaille, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Akim Demaille, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory,
Akim Demaille <=
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Mark D. Roth, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Paul Eggert, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Akim Demaille, 2002/05/26
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Mark D. Roth, 2002/05/26
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Akim Demaille, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Peter Eisentraut, 2002/05/24
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Bruce Korb, 2002/05/24
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- Re: Site Macro Directory, Paul Eggert, 2002/05/16
- Re: Site Macro Directory, Guido Draheim, 2002/05/16
Re: Site Macro Directory, Thomas Dickey, 2002/05/15