Re: aclocal or acinclude?

[Peter O'Gorman]

Tim Dennis wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> 
>> Tim Dennis wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>>> In the autoconf manual in Chapter 3, page 5 it states:
>>>>
>>>> ... If you write your own feature tests to supplement those that come
>>>> with Autoconf, you might also write files called ‘aclocal.m4’ and
>>>> ‘acsite.m4’...
>>>>
>>>> I understand acsite.m4, but I thought aclocal.m4 was *generated* by the
>>>> aclocal program, not written by the user. I was under the impression
>>>> that you were supposed to write project-specific macro in a file called
>>>> acinclude.m4 (which the manual doesn't mention at all).
>>> I was recently puzzling over this very question myself. In the end I
>>> just
>>> created acsite.m4 and put the macro there. It seemed to work fine for
>>> me,
>>> but more experienced users likely will have a better answer.
>> It all depends on if you are using autoconf in combination with automake
>> or not. If you use automake, or use its aclocal to generate aclocal.m4,
>> then you can put your own macros in acinclude.m4. The aclocal program
>> will m4_include acinclude.m4 at the end of the generated aclocal.m4.
>>
>> autoconf itself knows nothing about acinclude.m4.
>>
> 
> So then is it fair to say that acinclude.m4 is not deprecated? The on-line
> autoconf manual does not mention this file, only aclocal.m4 and acsite.m4.
> Tim
> 

No, see the automake manual
http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Examples

Peter
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