Re: [fetchmail-devel] Re: m4 directories?

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Graham Wilson <bo...@de...> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 01:44:21PM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
>> What is the purpose of the m4 directory? I can only see that is has one
>> file in it (Makefile.am)?
>> 
>> Also, would it be alright to move the macros from m4-local into one file
>> (acinclude.m4)? I don't see any need to add a new directory for just one
>> or a handful of new macros.
>
> Revisiting this, it seems like we've decided to keep the autotool macros
> as individual files. Since we are going to do that, I think we all agree
> that they should be put in a subdirectory. Matthias, would it be alright
> to put the macros (and their license) into the m4 directory, or should
> the be put back into m4-local?

Adding them to the m4 directory might be confusing, because the
"autopoint" utility that will be run will update/copy files in(to) the
m4/ directory (also po/, intl/).

Finding out which files the license applies to will be a bit harder than
usual, but there is no /technical/ reason to avoid putting the files
into m4 AFAIK.

As long as it's only one self-contained macro set, there is no reason
not to name it acinclude.m4 either, but things are getting inconcise as
the count of macros grows.

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Matthias Andree

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