[ethereal-dev] Re: Patching aclocal

[Ben Fowler <wapdev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > >  I have just patched my 0.8.3 tree to 0.8.4 using the (tiny)
> > >  patch provided. I was unable to compile 0.8.4 in this way
> > >  because after the patch aclocal.m4 was out of date and
> > >  my system was not strong enough to make it. I got 0.8.4
> > >  to compile by 'touch'ing aclocal.m4.

... which had not been modified between 0.8.3 and 0.8.4 .

A few weeks ago I reported that problem with aclocal. My intended
solution was to install libtool. Although I think that I was on the
right lines, this did work for a subtle reason which is that libtool
installs its m4 file in /usr/local/share/aclocal and aclocal only
looks in /usr/share/aclocal.

There are a number of ways or moving forward.

1) Give aclocal a -I ... option
2) Install libtool from an rpm
3) Install/configure libtool with an option like --datadir=/usr/share
4) Replace /usr/local/share/aclocal with a link to /usr/share/aclocal

It seems that (4) is the recommended method, but I was
reluctant to do this on (to?) my system and have attempted
(3).

The behaviour of aclocal is considered faulty and may be repaired
in subsequent releases.

BTW, a search on google showed that this problem had been discussed
on this list back in January, but I was not subscribed then..

Ben


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