kc3-lang/automake

2012-03-28T14:31:36

acinstall: remove, it has never been really used Accordingly to the git history (see for example the 'README-alpha' in commit 'Release-1-1e-39-g9beb4ec' of 06-10-1996), the 'acinstall' script should have been used to install m4 files for aclocal. The comments in this script report that "... A script is needed to do this because we want to do serial-number checking; newer versions of macro files should always be preferred". But the 'acinstall' script has never been really used: for example, the entry "actually use acinstall program" was removed (unfixed) from the TODO file in commit 'Release-1-1k-12-g1201405' of 08-12-1996, and the only citation of 'acinstall' in the manual was removed in commit 'Release-1-1l-37-g128c3d7' of 19-03-1997, and never added back. In addition, the last non-trivial edit to the script (that is, besides updates to the copyright notice) dates back to 1996. More importantly, now that aclocal supports the ACLOCAL_PATH environment variable, installing m4 files directly in the system-wide acdir is discouraged, and better left only to distros' package managers (which already have their own way to do so, with which third-party build systems should not directly meddle). So we just remove the 'acinstall' script. * lib/acinstall: Remove. * lib/Makefile.am (dist_script_DATA): Update. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>