gettext's installation path and aclocal19's search path

[Ade Lovett]

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Both devel/autoconf* and devel/automake* are up for a major overhaul,  
with appropriate wrapper scripts, in a similar manner to (insert  
Linux distribution here).

At that time, auto* will become a lot easier to manage, in a similar  
way to the recent libtool carnage has resulted in an easier system to  
work with.

Watch this space.  It's not going to happen overnight, since changes  
to such core infrastructural ports require *a lot* of testing.

- -aDe

On Jun 5, 2006, at 02:27 , Vasil Dimov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that devel/gettext is installing its .m4 files in
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/
>
> % pkg_info -L /var/db/pkg/gettext-0.14.5_2/ |grep gettext.m4
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/gettext.m4
>
> while aclocal19 (installed by devel/automake19) is searching for
> .m4 files in /usr/local/share/aclocal19/
>
> % aclocal19 --print-ac-dir
> /usr/local/share/aclocal19
>
> This is causing errors (undefined macro) with software using
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT and AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION in its configure.in file.
>
> So far I have found the following workaround:
> (beware! it may hurt your eyes)
>
> pre-configure:
> 	cd ${WRKSRC} && \
> 	${SETENV} ${AUTOTOOLS_ENV} \
> 	ACLOCAL="${ACLOCAL} -I ${LOCALBASE}/share/aclocal" \
> 	${AUTORECONF} -f -i -s
>
> The question is:
> Is this something local to the package or something in gettext/ 
> automake
> installation/configuration paths?
>
> Btw the software in question is devel/xaralx-devel.
>
> -- 
> Vasil Dimov
> gro.DSBeerF at dv
>
> Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence.
>                 -- Edsger W. Dijkstra

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