Re: [PATCH] support parallel installations

[Charles Wilson]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> But how to support parallel installs of various libtool versions with
> only a single /usr/share/aclocal?  I'm worried that leaving a copy of
> the last-installed-libtool's-m4-files in aclocal is going to cause more
> trouble with misunderstood version mismatch errors than cleanly
> upgrading to a system that doesn't pollute that directory.

Perhaps using automake/aclocal's "dirlist" feature?

If there is a file called "dirlist" in /usr/share/aclocal, that file 
contains (one per line) a list of additional directories in which to 
search for .m4 files.

Maybe libtool install could parse/munge/modifiy/create such a file, in 
order to encourage aclocal to "do the right thing"?

Maybe not; I can see some problems with this idea, but haven't thought 
to deeply about it.  Just something to consider.

--
Chuck