[libvirt] [PATCH] autogen: allow aclocal to receive arguments via an environment variable

[Eric Blake]

On 09/19/2010 01:21 AM, Justin Clift wrote:
> On Mac OS X, the "Homebrew" build system (one of the three main ones)
> has its m4 macro directory placed in a user configurable location.
>
> This patch adds a simple way to pass this configuration information to
> aclocal, using an environment variable called ACLOCAL_FLAGS. This allows
> the packaging of libvirt into the Homebrew build system.
>
> ie:
>      $ export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I /path/to/m4/macro/dir/"
> ---
>
> Although this patch works, I'm kind of expecting Eric will have a better way
> of achieving what this is trying to do, so this will get NACKed.  No stress. :)
>
>   README-hacking |    6 ++++++
>   bootstrap      |    2 +-
>   2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Shoot, I still need to review this patch upstream on gnulib, since it 
touches gnulib.

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