porting to gentoo: m4 files breaks automake

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Tue Oct 10 15:44:38 BST 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 16:34 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:

> It took me some while to find out that this was related to the upstart
> installation. Some digging showed that the misc.m4, compiler.m4 and
> linker.m4 got installed in /usr/share/aclocal and compiler.m4 and
> linker.m4 will look for misc.m4 in m4/ subdir. Since I dont have any m4/
> subdir on my system, every other package that tries to use aclocal
> fails.
> 
Ah, we don't actually ship these in Ubuntu at the moment; they're just
development files and not actually included in any package.

The hacky include of misc.m4 was a necessary evil to make the package
work, and has already been removed from the bzr branch.

Scott
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