Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] configure cvs version

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 21:26:51 -0800
> I didn't install everthing in the same place
> (libtool.m4 is in /usr/gnu/libtool/share/aclocal
> lex.m4 is in /usr/gnu/automake-1.4/share/aclocal//lex.m4
> gnome is in /usr/local/gnome
> 
> I wasn't aware these things were so interdependent...
> 
> What's the best way out of this mess?

Somehow convince autoconf (and perhaps automake) to look in *all* those
locations for its macros, or reinstall them in the same place.

I installed autoconf, automake, GTK+/GLib, and libtool from the standard
source distributions on my machine, without configuring them to install
in different directories, and they all dumped their ".m4" files into
"/usr/local/share/aclocal".

In general, I suspect that installing software in the non-default
location is asking for trouble if any other software depends on it -
configure scripts tend to look for stuff under /usr/local or
/usr/local/share in standard locations.