m4-macros for different versions in /usr/local/share/aclocal?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:04, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm creating a port which requires aclocal to be run before
> automake. I run in a few problems with it and further research
> let me know, that all ports which comes with some macros for
> aclocal put them into /usr/local/share/aclocal.
> 
> I run into a problem with aclocal17 and missing macros for
> gettext and libtool and conflicting macro definitions in
> libtool13.m4 and libtool14.m4.
> 
> I think, their must be a better solution as the existing.
> 
> One step could be, putting the aclocal self related macros
> into a directory which is ever named as the aclocal
> /usr/local/share/aclocal{14,15,17}/ version and put port
> additions ever to /usr/local/share/aclocal/. Or the ports
> put their additions to /usr/local/share/aclocal/${port}/

I like this syntax better.

> and eg. USE_LIBTOOL extends ACLOCAL_SEARCH_DIR to according
> directory. ACLOCAL_ARGS will be extended by the resulting
> search path, each dir prepended by the '-I' parameter
> (using REINPLACE).
> 
> The consequence would be, that each of those ports must
> have a USE_${PORT} equivalent und bsd.port.mk (or included
> .mk of it, eg. bsd.gnome.mk).
> 
> What does the rest of FreeBSD ports people think about that?

I agree with this, and I have suggested it to Ade.  That is one of the
hang ups I'm running into with anjuta-devel. 

Joe

> 
> Best regards,
> Jens
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