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6.3.2 Macro search path

By default, aclocal searches for ‘.m4’ files in the following directories, in this order:

acdir-APIVERSION

This is where the ‘.m4’ macros distributed with automake itself are stored. APIVERSION depends on the automake release used; for automake 1.6.x, APIVERSION = 1.6.

acdir

This directory is intended for third party ‘.m4’ files, and is configured when automake itself is built. This is ‘@datadir@/aclocal/’, which typically expands to ‘${prefix}/share/aclocal/’. To find the compiled-in value of acdir, use the ‘--print-ac-dir’ option (see section aclocal options).

As an example, suppose that automake-1.6.2 was configured with ‘--prefix=/usr/local’. Then, the search path would be:

  1. /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.6/
  2. /usr/local/share/aclocal/

As explained in (see section aclocal options), there are several options that can be used to change or extend this search path.


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