[Scratchbox-users] Re: Making sb-provided m4 prefer files from /usr/share/aclocal

[Matt Hoosier]

On 7/7/06, Matt Hoosier <mwhoosier at gmail.com> wrote:
> A package that I'm patching [X.org server from the 7.1 release]
> requires a newer version of pkg-config macros than those shipped with
> 0.15 (the version provided by SB). After building and installing
> pkg-config 0.19, the m4 engine provided by Scratchbox still finds the
> pkg-config macros from /scratchbox/tools/share/aclocal/pkg.m4, rather
> than my newer file installed at /usr/share/aclocal/pkg.m4.
>
> If I manually move /scratchbox/tools/share/aclocal/pkg.m4 out of the
> way, autoconf finds the updated version with no problem.
>
> Is there an environment variable which I can tweak in order to put
> /usr/share/aclocal in the search path ahead of
> /scratchbox/tools/share/aclocal? During Debian package builds, it's
> not really feasible to manually gain root powers and move the
> SB-provided file out of the way each time. I tried manipulating
> M4PATH, but this seems to have no effect.

I found a workaround. Creating a little shell script "aclocal-wrapper"
whose body consists of the following:

  #! /bin/sh
  /usr/bin/env aclocal -I /usr/share/aclocal "$@"

works, when the ACLOCAL env variable is made to point at this new
wrapper script.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>