Greetings and Question on the purpose of /usr/aclocal/quantlib.m4

[Liguo Song]

Dear QuantLib users and developers,

I just joined this list, and began using QuantLib. I really appreciate all
the efforts that you have been put into this fine package. I hope that I
would be able to offer my contribution to QuantLib.

As questions are always the best ice-breaker, I get mine to get the
conversation started. :)

While building rpm package for QuantLib-0.3.1, I noticed quantlib.m4 is
installed into /usr/aclocal/. I am wondering what is this file for. And why
create a new directory under /usr/ instead of using another existing
directory?

Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,
Liguo Song

[Luigi Ballabio-2]

At 09:19 PM 8/19/03 -0500, Liguo Song wrote:
>While building rpm package for QuantLib-0.3.1, I noticed quantlib.m4 is
>installed into /usr/aclocal/. I am wondering what is this file for. And why
>create a new directory under /usr/ instead of using another existing
>directory?

Liguo,
         quantlib.m4 contains autoconf macros to be used in case one is
setting up a project which uses QuantLib. They provide configure with the
means to determine where QuantLib is installed. As for their location, they
should end up under $prefix/share/aclocal which should be the standard
location for this kind of files. I'm kind of puzzled that they don't go in
/usr/share/aclocal on your machine. Which version of QuantLib are you
using? And which arguments did you pass to configure?

Later,
         Luigi

[Liguo Song]

Hi, Luigi,

Thank you very much for the reply.

I am compiling with QuantLib-0.3.1-srt.tar.gz from freshmeat.net. I
simply use ./configure;make;make install --prefix=/usr

I noticed in a freshly untared QuantLib package,
  m4datadir = $(prefix)/aclocal
inside Makefile.am and Makefile.in. This seems to be the reason
that quantlib.m4 is put into /usr/aclocal/.

Did I just stumbled on a bug?


Liguo



On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Luigi Ballabio wrote:

> At 09:19 PM 8/19/03 -0500, Liguo Song wrote:
> >While building rpm package for QuantLib-0.3.1, I noticed quantlib.m4 is
> >installed into /usr/aclocal/. I am wondering what is this file for. And why
> >create a new directory under /usr/ instead of using another existing
> >directory?
>
> Liguo,
>          quantlib.m4 contains autoconf macros to be used in case one is
> setting up a project which uses QuantLib. They provide configure with the
> means to determine where QuantLib is installed. As for their location, they
> should end up under $prefix/share/aclocal which should be the standard
> location for this kind of files. I'm kind of puzzled that they don't go in
> /usr/share/aclocal on your machine. Which version of QuantLib are you
> using? And which arguments did you pass to configure?
>
> Later,
>          Luigi
>
>
>
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