If "aclocal" is invoked during build, it doesn't get called with the right arguments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: COUCHDB-414 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-414 Project: CouchDB Issue Type: Bug Components: Build System Affects Versions: 0.10 Environment: Ubuntu 9.04 Reporter: James Henstridge For some changes a Linux distro might make to couchdb when packaging, the build might reinvoke aclocal, automake, autoconf, etc. If "aclocal" gets invoked, it doesn't know that some of the macros are stored in the m4/ subdirectory. This can be fixed by adding the following line to the toplevel Makefile.am: ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 This is documented in Section 6.3.4 (Handling Local Macros) of the Automake 1.10 manual. It is also recommended to add a line like the following to configure.ac so other tools know you're using m4/ as the autoconf macro directory: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) With these two changes, it shouldn't be necessary to explicitly m4_include() m4/ac_check_icu.m4 in configure.ac -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.