Re: modularize `aclocal.m4`?

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Samstag, den 07.03.2020, 10:27 +0100 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> In standard GNU projects, the `aclocal.m4` file gets auto-generated
> with the `aclocal` script; the necessary M4 scripts are either taken
> from the system or from a directory that gets specified with some
> command line options to `aclocal`.
> 
> Looking into the git history of LilyPond's `aclocal.m4` file I can see
> that this was true in the very beginning.  However, later on people
> started to modify this file manually.  Was this intentional?
> 
> I suggest to use `aclocal` again, modularizing the current stuff in
> `aclocal.m4` by splitting it into various `.m4` files in a `m4`
> top-level subdirectory.

+1 for doing this, but this is a very low-level tooling change. I'm in
favor of doing 2.21.0 first.

Jonas

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