[Clfs-support] aclocal and /usr/X11R7/share issue

[Michael A. Peters]

I'm trying to build something (rpm if curious) that uses an older 
internal version of a library (popt) when it should be using the 
external system version of the library.

To fix it, you patch the source, remove the source for the internal 
version of the library, and then run autoreconf

autoreconf fails with the following error:

aclocal: couldn't open directory `/usr/X11R7/share/aclocal': No such 
file or directory
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1


if I make a symlink to /usr/share/aclocal at /usr/X11R7/share/aclocal - 
everything goes just dandy, but there is not an X window system installed.

I've tried to find where aclocal is set to try and find a directory in 
/usr/X11R7 but I'm at a complete loss. I don't believe it should even be 
looking there.

Anyone familiar with the autotools system know why this happening?