From 7b93a8c8f6fefab11192f4433d8c10db4e0cf9c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Blake Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:50:05 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ THANKS | 1 + doc/autoconf.texi | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 4ec5b15f..0aab3983 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2008-03-26 Eric Blake + + 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 * tests/autotest.at (Using atlocal): Quote instances of `pwd`. diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS index 1227291a..c6b5f4c7 100644 --- 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 a32e7790..17b90455 100644 --- 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 -- 2.47.2