Re: aclocal/dirlist

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 06:32:06PM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> All /opt/*/share/aclocal directories should be listed in
> /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist
> (See "info aclocal" for details.)

What do you think about this patch to automake:

	http://www.clifford.at/priv/aclocal-dirlist-glob.patch

| Clifford Wolf:
| 	Added wildcard support to the dirlist parser
| 
| --- automake-1.9.3/aclocal.in	2005-10-17 13:06:07.000000000 +0200
| +++ automake-1.9.3/aclocal.in	2005-10-17 13:07:59.000000000 +0200
| @@ -672,11 +672,11 @@
|  	  # Ignore '#' lines.
|  	  next if /^#/;
|  	  # strip off newlines and end-of-line comments
| -	  s/\s*\#.*$//;
| +	  s/\s*\#.*$//; chomp;
|  	  chomp ($contents=$_);
| -	  if (-d $contents )
| +	  foreach $contents (glob)
|  	    {
| -	      push (@dirlist, $contents);
| +	      push (@dirlist, $contents) if -d $contents;
|  	    }
|  	}
|        close (DEFAULT_DIRLIST);

With this applied we could simply add a static /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist
file to the automake package.

I have sent a mail about it to the automake mailinglist already, but it
looks like it did not come thru so far..

yours,
 - clifford

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