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aclocal fails if /usr/share/aclocal does not exist

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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini <at> gmail.com>
To: Tim Retout <diocles <at> debian.org>
Cc: automake-patches <at> gnu.org, 10791 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10791: aclocal fails if /usr/share/aclocal does not exist
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:01:39 +0100

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On 02/22/2012 10:30 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
>
> On 02/22/2012 10:25 AM, Tim Retout wrote:
> 
>> Adding a README file will cause us problems if automake-1.11 and
>> automake-1.12 (say) are installed on the same system - who owns the
>> README?
>>
> Good point.  Let's just drop my patch for now.
> 
But the more I think about it, the more I dislike the idea of creating
an empty directory whose existence is required by aclocal in order for
it to function at all.  Moreover, the objection you've raised might be
applied to the aclocal and automake (unversioned) scripts themselves,
but that doesn't prevent us from installing them.

So I've committed the patch after all (see attachment).

Regards,
  Stefano

[0001-aclocal-don-t-create-usr-share-aclocal-as-empty.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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