Re: Handling of extra macros

[Keith Marshall]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 9:10 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 21:38 +0100, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > >>> "RB" == Ross Boylan <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> >  RB> 5. The autoconf manual has no index entry for aclocal.  There is one
> > for RB> aclocal.m4, and the text refers to aclocal.  Is aclocal
> > deprecated?
> >
> > aclocal is part of Automake, not autoconf.  The Automake manual
> > documents aclocal and explains how to handle local macros properly.
>
> Thank you.  For the record, the file "acinclude.m4" is automatically
> included.

I thought I'd previously seen this documented somewhere, but a search in 
autoconf 2.59's texinfo manual fails to turn up the reference :-(

> It seems odd that a routine part of using autoconf requires automake.  I
> realize technically aclocal is not required to use autoconf, but my
> understanding is that it's use is routine.

FWIW, I routinely create an aclocal.m4 for my projects, but I've never used 
aclocal to create it.  My tool of choice for this job is vim[1] -- it gives 
me complete control over what gets included  :-)

Regards,
Keith.

[1] substitute your own favourite editor name here.