Hi Ralf, thanks for the report. On 04/24/2012 11:45 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > Hi, > > automake >= 1.11.4 doesn't create $(datadir)/aclocal. > > This cause aclocal to fail: > > tar xvf automake-1.11.4.tar.xz > cd automake-1.11.4 > configure --prefix=/tmp/foo > make > make install > > Change to the source directory of an arbitrary automake-based package > and run /tmp/foo/bin/aclocal > > aclocal: couldn't open directory '/tmp/foo/share/aclocal': No such file or > directory > > $(datadir)/aclocal is the directory, packages outside of automake are > supposed to install their *.m4's into. > > It's an error > a) of automake to not create this directory > It's this: an error in automake build system :-(
Luckily, it is already fixed in master (which tomorrow will become Automake 1.12), and unlikely to represent itself (since in master we finally have a true "installcheck" target that is always run by "make distcheck" and should catch errors like this one. > b) in aclocal to abort in case this directory is not present > Regards, Stefano
