ax_warning_default_aclocaldir

Synopsis

AX_WARNING_DEFAULT_ACLOCALDIR [(dirvariable [,[defsetting][,[A][,[N/A]]]])]
AX_ENABLE_DEFAULT_ACLOCALDIR [(dirvariable [,defsetting])]

Description

print a warning message if the $(datadir)/aclocal directory is not in the dirlist searched by the aclocal tool. This macro is useful if some ‘make install‘ would target $(datadir)/aclocal to install an autoconf m4 file of your project to be picked up by other projects.

 default $1 dirvariable = aclocaldir
 default $2 defsetting  = ${datadir}/aclocal
 default $3 action = nothing to do
 default $4 action = warn the user about mismatch

In the _WARNING_ variant, the defsetting is not placed in dirvariable nor is it ac_subst’ed in any way. The default fail-action $4 is to send a warning message to the user, and the default accept-action $3 is nothing. It is expected that a Makefile is generated with aclocaldir=${datadir}/aclocal

The _ENABLE_ variant however will set not only the $aclocaldir shell var of the script, but it is also AC-SUBST’ed on default - and furthermore a configure option "–enable-default-aclocaldir" is provided. Only if that option is set then $2 default is not set to the canonic default in the a $prefix subpath but instead $2 default is set to the primary path where ‘aclocal‘ looks for macros. The user may also override the default on the command line.

Source Code

Download the latest version of ax_warning_default_aclocaldir.m4 or browse the macro’s revision history.

License

Copyright © 2008 Guido U. Draheim guidod@gmx.de

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