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

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 12:11:20 -0700
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 04:47:01PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Packages that install Autoconf macros should use
> 
> $ aclocal --print-ac-dir
> /usr/share/aclocal
> 
> to install their macro files.

Are you saying packages that install autoconf macros should use the
result of "aclocal --print-ac-dir" to install their macro files?

Perhaps they *should*, but if they, in practice, *don't*, that doesn't
help.  For example, GTK+ 1.2.8 doesn't, so that means Ethereal cannot
rely on the GTK+ macros being installed where "aclocal" will find them
by default; you might want to suggest to the GTK+ folk that they do so,
but, until they do so, we still have to force aclocal to look in
"/usr/share/aclocal", and, even if they do, we'd still have to force
aclocal to look in "/usr/share/aclocal" until such time as either

	1) every version of a UNIX-compatible OS out there on which
	   Ethereal can be built and in which aclocal doesn't, by
	   default, look in "/usr/share/aclocal" is no longer in use or
	   can no longer support Ethereal

or

	2) Ethereal no longer supports those versions of GTK+ that
	   install autoconf macros elsewhere then in the directory
	   reported by "aclocal --print-ac-dir".