Akim> Or else, it should be Automake who should communicate something
Akim> to Autoconf. That's a new situation. Maybe Automake could
Akim> create an m4 file with all the directories it needs. Kinda
Akim> bizarre, it never happened before.
I don't want to do this in automake.
It would mean re-running autoconf each time a Makefile.am is touched.
That would mean re-running configure, too. This way lies madness.
I agree that autoconf has too many directory options. They are almost
always not useful. However, getting rid of them is probably the wrong
approach.
Tom