Re: automake transition

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

James Henstridge <james daa com au> writes:

> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > btw here is a patch that aclocal benefits from: ---
> > /cvs/am-cvs/automake14/aclocal      Wed Jul 24 22:58:19 2002
> >+++ /unst/bin/aclocal-1.4       Wed Jul 24 23:55:54 2002
> >@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
> >            elsif ($map{$1} ne 'acinclude.m4' || $file eq
> >'acinclude.m4')
> >            {
> >                warn "aclocal: $file: $.: duplicated macro \`$1'\n";
> >-               $exit_status = 1;
> >+               #$exit_status = 1;
> >            }
> >            print STDERR "Found macro $1 in $file: $.\n" if
> >$verbosity;
> >        }
> >
> Does this fix the problem correctly (ie. choose the newer macro if
> multiple ones exist), or just cause it to not error out?  If you are
> getting these errors because of macros distributed with automake, make
> sure that $(datadir)/aclocal only contains macros from other
> packages. Automake's macros should be in $(datadir)/aclocal-1.4 or 1.6.

The typical situation is that you have GNOME installed in /usr
and you are trying to build another copy of GNOME in a different
prefix. 

Since aclocal -I prepends, not replaces, the only other way of getting
things to work is to use a separate auto* copy. (And a separate copy
of all the dependencies.)

Regards,
                                        Owen