Re: aclocal directory not found error

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Mike Frysinger wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 07:52:41AM CEST:
> On Thursday, July 29, 2010 01:40:24 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 03:20:37AM CEST:
> > > So this tiny issue has been bugging me for years.  Thought I report.
> > > Can you please make aclocal silently ignore include directories that
> > > do not exist?  It bothers me that on a new system when I set my env
> > > vars to have a complete tree in my ~/.local, every directory gets
> > > created on demand except for share/aclocal.
> > 
> > Yes, I accept a patch that does that for absolute paths, if it includes
> > a test case.  Let's see if someone beats me to it.  ;-)
> 
> but the more common case of like `m4 -I m4` would still fail ?  i guess 
> people 
> could work around it by using code like `m4 -I $PWD/m4` ...

Isn't the non-existence of an in-tree directory an error usually though?
(Honest question, if there are good setups that can't provide this we
should reconsider.)

Can we find a compromise that at least has a chance for typo detection?

Thanks,
Ralf