From 470734a576b9f92ca580b600bc94ea5be40c4a5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 23:22:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Recommend the use of aclocal's --install option. --- gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog b/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog index ec3248939..5a3294284 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gettext-tools/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2011-07-08 Bruno Haible + + * gettext.texi (aclocal): Recommend the use of aclocal's --install + option. + Suggested by Stefano Lattarini . + 2011-06-03 Bruno Haible Copyright: Use LGPL 2.1 instead of LGPL 2.0. diff --git a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi index 2965c7408..e54e304b9 100644 --- a/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi +++ b/gettext-tools/doc/gettext.texi @@ -7990,6 +7990,18 @@ ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 @noindent to your top level @file{Makefile.am}. +If you are using GNU @code{automake} 1.10 or newer, it is even easier: +Add the line + +@example +ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = --install -I m4 +@end example + +@noindent +to your top level @file{Makefile.am}, and run @samp{aclocal --install -I m4}. +This will copy the needed files to the @file{m4/} subdirectory automatically, +before updating @file{aclocal.m4}. + These macros check for the internationalization support functions and related informations. Hopefully, once stabilized, these macros might be integrated in the standard Autoconf set, because this -- 2.47.2