Hi there, so I have this project where I use autoconf and libtool, but *not* automake. Turns out that autoreconf insists on using tools from automake anyway, namely by invoking "aclocal" which is part of automake.
This is what I get: $ autoreconf -vif --no-recursive -I cnf/m4 . autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal -I cnf/m4 --output=aclocal.m4t Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /sw/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory I can "fix" this by installing automake, but this is deeply unsatisfactory. Is there a better solution? Note that my configure.ac uses AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([cnf/m4]) and so aclocal.m4 ends up looking like this (after stripping out legal headers): m4_ifndef([AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS], [m4_defun([_AM_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS], [])m4_defun([AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS], [_AM_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS($@)])]) m4_include([cnf/m4/ax_check_library.m4]) m4_include([cnf/m4/ax_pthread.m4]) ... Creating such a list of includes (from a naive view point, of course) seems like it should be "trivial" to do, and not require a complex tool like aclocal. But perhaps / likely I am missing something? Or perhaps aclocal should be migrated from automake to autoconf? (Perhaps under a different name, to simplify the transition?) Cheers, Max
