Hi! I have a problem with the rule in Makefile (generated from a Makefile.am): $(ACLOCAL_M4): configure.in cd $(srcdir) && $(ACLOCAL) In my bootstrap, I call aclocal with an include path: aclocal -I /netsite/share/m4/autoconf Now, when aclocal is called by the above Makefile rule, the include path is NOT retained. The fix for this is currently to have the following in configure.in, which I consider a hack: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(pyDBLIB, ${PYDBLIB_REVISION}) AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h:config.h.in) AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT($HOME/tmp/pyDBLIB) dnl Hack for persistent include path ACLOCAL="$ACLOCAL -I /netsite/share/m4/autoconf" My proposal for a real fix would be an AC_LOCAL_M4_ARGS macro or something similar. Environment: SuSE 7.0 Autoconf version 2.13 automake (GNU automake) 1.4 Ciao, Jürgen -- Jürgen Hermann, Developer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) WEB.DE AG, http://webde-ag.de/