Re: Site Macro Directory

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Mark D. Roth wrote:

> On Thu May 16 05:59 2002 -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
>
> I'm not sure that I agree that having a site macro directory makes it
> any more likely for developers to screw things up.  However, even if
> that is the case, we can have autoconf cache any macros that get used
> in the aclocal.m4 file, just like aclocal does.  That way you still
> get a copy of all of the necessary macros as part of the distributed
> package, but it happens automatically and without the need to install
> a seperate package.  Would that address this objection?

btw -
That's one of automake's misfeatures: choosing a name which was already
in use for a different purpose.

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