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Scott James Remnant wrote: | On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:41, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: |>libtool.m4 will be slowly crushed under the weight of its old releases. | | It stops us changing our AC_DEFUNs to m4_defines, yes. It wouldn't stop | us removing old macros, because we'd remove the calls to them too one | hopes.
Unless they migrate into autoconf, hence the warning in bootstrap.
|>A better algorithm would be to use an existing AC_FOO macro (howsoever it is |>defined) in preference to pulling in a new file of macros and all of its |>dependencies? | | The problem is that aclocal doesn't know about m4_define, yes.
Yep.
|> 1: remove $prefix/share/aclocal/l(ibtoo|td)l.m4 of old releases at install |> time |> 2: keep copies of the latest versions only in $prefix/share/libtool/m4 |> 3: maybe we need a new $prefix/share/aclocal/ltcompat.m4 with stubs for |> the macros you list above to keep aclocal happy? |> | | We wouldn't need the stubs if aclocal could only see one libtool.m4.
Agreed. And 1+2 achieves this. I'll post a patch shortly.
| Yet again I wish that Autoconf would learn how to keep its own macros in | order, and didn't need a tool from Automake to do it for it! The true | way to fix this is to add AC_MACRO_DIR to Autoconf, and allow it to | source files in that directory the same way it does its own macro | library. No more stuffing everything in aclocal.m4. But I digress.
Akim and I (and others) have talked about this before. Unfortunately, we need to add programmatic include path munging to m4 as a prerequisite. It will happen at some point though, everyone regards aclocal as a necessary evil.
Cheers,
Gary.
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