Document Automake interaction with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR.

* doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Mention ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS for automake
users.
* THANKS: Update.
Reported by Chris Pickett.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4ec5b15fb7b63595cb9c6d0a6078a69fcd3e7d2e..0aab3983f24193087b6bc1ef0a9ef2fca410c9be 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2008-03-26  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       Document Automake interaction with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR.
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Input): Mention ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS for automake
+       users.
+       * THANKS: Update.
+       Reported by Chris Pickett.
+
 2008-03-25  Ralf Wildenhues  <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
 
        * tests/autotest.at (Using atlocal): Quote instances of `pwd`.

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 1227291a8e66039f5e85b21e3159e32264719cbf..c6b5f4c7082c6767b990d41557c33f9691d06206 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Carlos Velasco              carlosev@newipnet.com
 Chad R. Larson              chad@anasazi.com
 Charles 'Buck' Krasic       krasic@cs.ubc.ca
 Chris P. Ross               cross@uu.net
+Chris Pickett               chris.pickett@mail.mcgill.ca
 Chris Provenzano            proven@cygnus.com
 Chris Torek                 torek@bsdi.com
 Christian Cornelssen        ccorn@cs.tu-berlin.de

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index a32e7790bd6f1e5bb3342cdb4b898e59f21c4c93..17b90455d2a54c9b48569a72fe3a8f86b94c79ac 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -1971,6 +1971,13 @@ This macro is intended for use by future versions of commands like
 @command{autoreconf} that trace macro calls.  It should be called
 directly from @file{configure.ac} so that tools that install macros for
 @command{aclocal} can find the macros' declarations.
+
+Note that if you use @command{aclocal} from Automake to generate
+@file{aclocal.m4}, you must also set @code{ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I
+@var{dir}} in your top-level @file{Makefile.am}.  Due to a limitation in
+the Autoconf implementation of @command{autoreconf}, these include
+directives currently must be set on a single line in @file{Makefile.am},
+without any backslash-newlines.
 @end defmac