Re: gEDA: Hold off on next release?

[Dan McMahill <dan-at-NOSPAMmcmahill_dot_net>]

Ales Hvezda wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>I have gotten my system functional again.  The problem was that
>>autogen wasn't finding certain m4 files (pkg.m4, gettext.m4, and
>>guile.m4) when running the autotools.  I don't know why this
>>happened since it used to work.  Anyway, I fixed the problem by
>>incorporating these m4 files into the m4 directories of certain source
> 
> 
> 
> 	I'm not particularly thrilled with including these m4 files in CVS
> since on a working (whatever that is) system it "just works".  I'm worried
> about version skew between what is in CVS and what is on local developers
> machines.  I can pretty much guarantee that my version of gettext is
> different than the m4 files in CVS.  However, I'm going to leave these
> changes in CVS for now.

I'm worried about this for the same reason.

Offhand it sounds to me like you just needed something like:

ACLOCAL_FLAGS=-I /opt/gnu/share/aclocal

in your environment.

-Dan