On Dec 20, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2011-12-20 15:35 -0500, Eric Gorr wrote: >> >> >> What I am not sure of is how to confirm just what directories will be >> searched for autoconf macros...? 'aclocal --print-ac-dir' still only >> outputs '/usr/bin/../share/aclocal' >> >> What is the appropriate way to make my additional search location >> perminant? Add the call to one of the bash init files, like .bashrc? > > I think doing something with your shell startup scripts is probably the > best approach in the short term. As I understand it, some future > automake version should feature improved aclocal search path handling. > > However, many tools invoke aclocal directly and won't get your changes > easily. Tools like autoreconf will use the ACLOCAL environment > variable, if set, so you can probably do something like this (untested): > > ACLOCAL='aclocal -I/usr/local/share/aclocal' > export ACLOCAL > > alias aclocal=$ACLOCAL > Thanks for the information. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
