Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] "autogen" problems in CVS sources

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:18:24 -0700 (PDT)
> > autoconf/automake have an extremely irritating characteristic - they
> > search *only* in the subtree in which they're installed, so that, for
> > example, versions that come with the OS and that live in "/usr/bin"
> > won't look under "/usr/local" for macros.
> 
> That is actually reasonable in that it is distributed with
> *highly* versioned macros.

...except that I'm not talking about the macros with which
autoconf/automake are distributed, I'm talkinga bout the macros with
which *GTK+* is distributed.  Having autoconf/automake search *only* in
"/usr/<whatever>", and not *also* in "/usr/local/<whatever>", makes life
very painful if you've installed third-party software under
"/usr/local", as you've discovered - obliging people to make the
appropriate links by hand is just gross.