On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:26:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Patrick Welche <prlw1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Isn't the long term goal "aclocal must be subsumed into autoconf"? What > > is preventing this from happening sooner rather than later? > > I never really understood why one would want to use aclocal rather than > m4_include with separate .m4 files unless one was using Automake. Just so that it sorts out the macro dependencies automatically? (So I can just use LT_INIT, and not need to work out whether or not m4_include(lt~obsolete.m4) is necessary...) Cheers, Patrick _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
