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Re: Handling of extra macros
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Patrick Welche |
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Re: Handling of extra macros |
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Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:42:53 +0000 |
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:26:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Patrick Welche <address@hidden> writes:
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> > Isn't the long term goal "aclocal must be subsumed into autoconf"? What
> > is preventing this from happening sooner rather than later?
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> I never really understood why one would want to use aclocal rather than
> m4_include with separate .m4 files unless one was using Automake.
Just so that it sorts out the macro dependencies automatically? (So I
can just use LT_INIT, and not need to work out whether or not
m4_include(lt~obsolete.m4) is necessary...)
Cheers,
Patrick