Re: Stopping aclocal from re-building

[Patrick Welche]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:12:44AM -0600, David Knox wrote:
> I'm a newbie using autotools on a fairly small project. I've been able 
> to get it to do most everything I want with the help of the macro 
> archive and the great examples in it. I have one problem that is driving 
> me nuts. I haven't figured out exactly what triggers this, but sometimes 
> the build process will run aclocal. This over writes my old aclocal, 
> which is a problem. When this happens, simply copy over the newly 
> generated copy. I've scanned the list archives and read the online 
> manual. I wasn't able to find anything specific to this question. Can 
> some one give me a hint how to turn this behavior off?

Does this mean that you are adding your own macros to aclocal.m4? Maybe
you could try adding them to acinclude.m4 instead, or popping them in
m4/yourownmacros.m4 with AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) (depending on your
version of autoconf) Then aclocal will fish them out and pop them into
the new aclocal.m4.

Cheers,

Patrick