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Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:11:18 -0700
From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Subject: aclocal: Should look for macros in /usr/local/share/aclocal
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Package: automake
Version: 1.4-p2-1
Severity: wishlist

Currently, macros dropped by the system administrator into
/usr/local/share/aclocal are ignored unless a -I option is specified
with that path. This behavior requires manual intervention when an
autogen.sh script calling aclocal expects some macros that the
sysadmin has put in /usr/local (to try to comply with the FHS).

I propose that automake's package install the directory
/usr/local/share/aclocal to facilitate local macros, and aclocal is
changed to look for macros there automatically. One way to do this is
to change line 106 of aclocal to 
&scan_m4_files ($acdir, @dirlist, "/usr/local/share/aclocal");
... but there may be better ways.

In addition, an environment variable specifying dirs to search for
macros would be nice.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux endquote 2.4.4-ac17 #1 Thu May 24 18:40:35 PDT 2001 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages automake depends on:
ii  autoconf       2.50-2         automatic configure script builder
ii  autotools-dev  20010511.3     Update infrastructure for config.{guess,sub}