The mpkg folks apply a patch to automake to allow it to support ACLOCAL_PATH.
This is most useful for places that want to support multiple versions of libtool and keep the libtool installation independent of any installed versions of automake. I don't have easy access to any of my CVS automake repos; has this patch been applied already? If not, could it be applied? The patch is: --- aclocal.in.old Tue Jul 17 07:36:23 2001 +++ aclocal.in Tue Aug 28 22:19:34 2001 @@ -206,6 +206,9 @@ exit 0; } + # Add directories from ACLOCAL_PATH + push @dirlist, split ':', $ENV{ACLOCAL_PATH}; + # Search our install directory last. push (@dirlist, $acdir);