Re: suggestions about AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR

[Braden McDaniel]

On 4/21/09 1:35 PM, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Hi
>
> I started adding some m4 macros to my program, that I put in the m4
> directory in my sources, and that will be installed during the make
> install.
>
> I then added
>
> aclocaldir = $(datadir)/aclocal
> aclocal_DATA = ax_boost_base.m4 ax_boost_regex.m4

Unless you're Boost, you shouldn't be installing these.

> in the m4/Makefile.am
>
> and
>
> ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4

And, BTW, setting ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS as such seems to be sufficient for 
telling recent automake to pull the macros in that directory into the 
distribution.

> in the root Makefile.am (together with m4 in subdirs).
>
> Now, if I run autoreconf, it will install the .m4 files related to
> libtool in my m4 directory:

[snip]

> is it a good thing? Or would it be better to keep these macros in a
> different directory? In that case I should pass
> AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([other value?]).
> What is the most used convention about this?

I put them all in the same place.  I think that's common.

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