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Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?



Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> writes:

> * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> schrieb:
>
>> > I'm (as upstream) using serval macros in their own .m4 files (eg.
>> > in ./m4/, maybe even sorted into subdirs). Can autoreconf figure
>> > out the required search pathes all on its own ?
>> 
>> The problem is that autoreconf offers NO command line options for you to
>> pass the required -I parameters for aclocal, nor is there a way to encode
>> that information in the one place where it could conveniently live
>> (configure.ac) AFAIK.
>
> So, more precisely: autoreconf lacks an important feature would like
> to see.

I don't think this is the case -- others have already explained how to
achieve the goals above.  If you still believe something is missing in
autoreconf, please report it to upstream so it can be fixed.

/Simon


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