On 7/24/05, David Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also have /usr/share/aclocal and /usr/share/aclocal-1.9. > LFS programs installed before automake install m4's in > /usr/share/aclocal. Later LFS packages install in > /usr/share/aclocal-1.9. BLFS packages seem to prefer > /usr/share/aclocal. There seems no method to the madness.
There is. The internal automake files are installed in /usr/share/aclocal-1.9 and /usr/share/automake-1.9. This is to allow multiple automake versions to co-exist without any conflicts. All other packages install their automake macros into /usr/share/aclocal so that multiple automake versions can find them when running automake. So automake-1.8 would look for macros in /usr/share/aclocal-1.8 and /usr/share/aclocal and automake-1.9 would look for macros in /usr/share/aclocal-1.9 and /usr/share/aclocal. That said, for a by-the-book LFS + BLFS installation it doesn't make much sense to have multiple directories since there is only one version of automake installed. That is the reason I symlink them on my system. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
