Re: [PATCH] Trace macros for aclocal options, deprecate ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hi Eric, Ralf.

Sorry for the late answer, but I'm experiencing some hardware
problems :-(
Future answers (for some time at least) might be late for the same
reason.

On Tuesday 12 October 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 05:59:39PM CEST:
> > I'm already liking this, just from the description.  Do we need to
> > teach autoconf to trace some new macros?
Pardon my ignornance, but why is thi needed?  The patch works correctly
even without such help from autoconf.  Or would that be "just" an
optimization?
 
> I guess so (although I haven't looked at the patch at all yet).
> Shouldn't hurt to add these:
> 
> _AM_AUTOCONF_VERSION
> _AM_ACLOCAL_FLAGS
> _AM_EXTRA_ACLOCAL_FLAGS
> AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR
> AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS
Yes, these are pretty much all the extra macros aclocal and automake
will trace after my patches are applied.

Thanks,
  Stefano