Re: trouble with aclocal

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Give the problems with the way aclocal works, some sort of
> hack seems inevitable.  The application writer must have a
> way of controlling which gnulib modules is being used.
> 
> I suppose another possible hack is to replace the ifdef with
> something like m4_ifdef([gl_[]THREADLIB], ...)

Yes, it sounds like if the original code

  m4_ifdef([gl_THREADLIB], [
    AC_REQUIRE([gl_THREADLIB])

had been written as

  m4_ifdef([gl_THRE[]ADLIB], [
    AC_REQUIRE([gl_THRE[]ADLIB])

then 'aclocal' would not have pulled in /usr/share/aclocal/threadlib.m4
that was installed there by 'gettext'.

Bruno
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