On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/14/2011 05:21 AM, Vincent Torri wrote: >> Hey >> >> I have several m4 macro files and I want to put them in several sub >> directories of the directory m4/. So the m4 files are located in: >> >> m4/ (libtool m4 files) >> m4/foo/ >> m4/bar/ >> >> I have tried to call several times AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR (one for each >> dir above) but it seems that only the last call is taken into account. > > Right now, AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR can only support a single directory. It > would probably be a good idea to let it support multiple directories > (and/or allow multiple calls to append to the directory list), but that > would require patches. ok >> How can I solve that (if it's possible) ? > > Without patches, the best you can do is pick which of your three > directories should be the primary one to contain any m4 files installed > during autoreconf; the remaining directories are still included via > ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS when running aclocal, but aclocal will only modify the > primary directory registered via AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR. > >> >> PS: in the top level Makefile.am, I have set ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS to -I m4 >> -I m4/foo -I m4/bar > > Yes, that is the correct way to read macros from multiple locations. ok, so AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) + ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS set as above. thank you Vincent Torri _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
