Re: macro search path

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 18:44 +0100, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:38:39PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > In both cases, a colon separated env. variable ACLOCAL_PATH would
> > > solve the problem neatly.
> 
> > To work around this issue, you'd have to switch "ACLOCAL_PATH" depending
> > on which directory you'd want to use.
> 
> this is what I meant.  It's very similar the current Gnome approach:
> they set ACLOCAL_FLAGS in the environment, and gnome-autogen.sh uses it.
> 
> I think ACLOCAL_PATH is better then switching two copies of dirlist
> or then creating two wrappers or two installations of Automake.
I don't agree - IMO, both are essentially equivalent.

i.e. I consider adding ACLOCAL_FLAGS as "shifting around problems".

Ralf