Bug#203653: ITP: autoconf-archive -- The GNU Autoconf Macro Archive

[Martin Godisch <martin@godisch.de>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 20:07:06 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> Be *EXTREMELY* careful.
> 
> Many of these macros are defined by other packages, and supplied in the
> lib*-dev packages or equivalents.
> 
> If any of autoconf-archive files are stored under /usr/share/aclocal it
> means that you could be conflicting with another package, or worse,
> causing aclocal to randomly pick different versions of the same macro
> depending on the weather.

Thanks for this input!

> It would be better for these to be either renamed with a common prefix
> ACMA_ for example, or stored in a different directory entirely so they
> have to be manually included in acinclude.m4

I intended to install them in /usr/share/autoconf-archive/ and to let
the user pick whatever he needs from there.

Kind regards,

Martin