Sam Steingold wrote: > so you are saying that I cannot call AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR($1) in > CL_MODULE_COMMON_CHECKS because other things required there must run > after it.
Yes. > why can't I do > AC_REQUIRE([AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR($1)]) > ?? Because of the way AC_REQUIRE is documented: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Prerequisite-Macros.html> Really, AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR is one of the few macros which must be called from the top of configure.ac, explicitly. Bruno
