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

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From: Bruce Korb <bkorb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 17:40:21 -0700
Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > Sounds like a request for enhancement to autoconf folks:
> > viz. a macro:
> >
> >   AC_SET_PREFIX( gtk )
> >
> > that will set a variable a la:
> >
> >   ac_gtk_prefix=/usr/local
> 
> ...only if the setting of "ac_gtk_prefix" changes the contents of the
> "aclocal" script on your machine.
> 
> What you want is to make "aclocal" (and anything else that searches for
> ".m4" auto* files) *always* search in all the directories that,

OTOH:

  ac_${prog}_prefix=`${prog}-config --prefix`

It either works or fails :-)