[libmudflap] Why was the toplevel libtool.m4 copied into acinclude.m4?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 18, 2004, Kelley Cook <kcook@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> If you delete the 928 line acinclude.m4 and put an ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS=I
> .. in Makefile.am followed by autoreconf with ac2.59/am1.9.3 it leads
> to the following differences in "configure" compared to the current
> directory simply autoreconf'd with the same versions.

Even if you have a different libtool.m4 in the default aclocal search
path?  If so, using -I .. is fine; otherwise, the sinclude/fake-define
dance is the way to go.

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