Replying to myself:
* Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-21 11:43]:
> I am having trouble with aclocal-1.8 when trying to m4_include files from
> another file that is itself m4_included. Here is an experiment that narrows
> down the problem:
>
> $ cat > configure.ac <<EOF
> > m4_include(cf/foo)
> > EOF
> $ mkdir cf
> $ cat > cf/foo <<EOF
> > m4_include(bar)
> > EOF
> $ touch cf/bar
> $ aclocal-1.8
> cf/foo:1: /usr/bin/m4: Cannot open bar: No such file or directory
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> aclocal-1.8: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> $ cat > cf/foo <<EOF
> > m4_include(cf/bar)
> > EOF
> $ aclocal-1.8
> aclocal-1.8: cannot open cf/cf/bar: No such file or directory
> $ ls -l cf
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rafael rafael 0 2004-02-21 11:18 bar
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rafael rafael 19 2004-02-21 11:20 foo
>
> Why neither m4_include(bar) nor m4_include(cf/bar) work in cf/foo?
I found a solution to my problem by using the environment variable M4PATH.
Here is the example above corrected:
$ cat > configure.ac <<EOF
> m4_include(cf/foo)
> EOF
$ mkdir cf
$ cat > cf/foo <<EOF
> m4_include(bar)
> EOF
$ touch cf/bar
$ export M4PATH=cf
$ aclocal-1.8
$
--
Rafael
