>> The autoconf part of this feature is trivial (I can provide a patch if >> that's useful), but I suspect I'd need to be able to write perl to >> implement the aclocal end :-) > Fortunately, if we consider relative directories as local, we don't > need to look at AC_CONFIG_M4_DIR. Adding this macro to Autoconf is > probably a good thing for the future, though. At the origin I was considering that AC_CONFIG_M4_DIR was automatically passed to m4 as a -I, so instead of m4_include([config/init.m4]) etc. you'd have m4_include([init.m4]).