#38579: RFE: make the aclocal.m4 file in base safe to regenerate with `aclocal` -------------------------+-------------------------------- Reporter: egall@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: base | Version: 2.1.3 Keywords: | Port: -------------------------+-------------------------------- Regenerating aclocal.m4 with `aclocal` is a standard part of an autotools workflow. `Automake` tells you to do it, `libtoolize` tells you to do it, `gettextize` tells you to do it, and I'm sure there are other tools that tell you to do it, too, that I'm just not thinking of now. However, the aclocal.m4 file in base contains some hard-coded macros in it, meaning that if you run `aclocal`, you're going to overwrite them and then be missing some of the macros you need. This is pretty simple to fix: you could rename the current aclocal.m4 file to acinclude.m4, or move it into the `m4/` directory in base, or both. After doing that, you can regenerate the aclocal.m4 file with `aclocal -I m4`. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38579> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X