Tim Dennis wrote: > Hi Peter, > >> Tim Dennis wrote: >>> Hi John, >>> >>>> In the autoconf manual in Chapter 3, page 5 it states: >>>> >>>> ... If you write your own feature tests to supplement those that come >>>> with Autoconf, you might also write files called ‘aclocal.m4’ and >>>> ‘acsite.m4’... >>>> >>>> I understand acsite.m4, but I thought aclocal.m4 was *generated* by the >>>> aclocal program, not written by the user. I was under the impression >>>> that you were supposed to write project-specific macro in a file called >>>> acinclude.m4 (which the manual doesn't mention at all). >>> I was recently puzzling over this very question myself. In the end I >>> just >>> created acsite.m4 and put the macro there. It seemed to work fine for >>> me, >>> but more experienced users likely will have a better answer. >> It all depends on if you are using autoconf in combination with automake >> or not. If you use automake, or use its aclocal to generate aclocal.m4, >> then you can put your own macros in acinclude.m4. The aclocal program >> will m4_include acinclude.m4 at the end of the generated aclocal.m4. >> >> autoconf itself knows nothing about acinclude.m4. >> > > So then is it fair to say that acinclude.m4 is not deprecated? The on-line > autoconf manual does not mention this file, only aclocal.m4 and acsite.m4. > Tim > No, see the automake manual http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Examples Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
