Re: [AD] m4 macro for allegro

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Rafkind wrote:

> Allegro mostly uses X11 libraries which dont have m4 macros, iirc, and 
> normal system libraries that every unix installation should have 
> anyway. It could take advantage of the esd.m4, alsa.m4, and maybe 
> other m4 macros that are used to build the modules. Currently someone 
> hardcoded aclocal.m4 to test for all the modules, but most of these 
> libraries( well I can only account for esd and alsa ) have their own 
> m4 macros in /usr/share/aclocal. I cant say its "better" to use these 
> macros, but thats what they are there for.


The advantage of not using the macros is that the person building the 
Allegro distribution doesn't need to have all the relevant .m4 files on 
their system.

Peter