This is the result of the two previous patches on the fileutils: @@ -22693,12 +22653,7 @@ s,@ECHO_C@,$ECHO_C,;t t s,@ECHO_N@,$ECHO_N,;t t s,@ECHO_T@,$ECHO_T,;t t -s,@CFLAGS@,$CFLAGS,;t t -s,@CPPFLAGS@,$CPPFLAGS,;t t -s,@CXXFLAGS@,$CXXFLAGS,;t t -s,@FFLAGS@,$FFLAGS,;t t s,@DEFS@,$DEFS,;t t -s,@LDFLAGS@,$LDFLAGS,;t t s,@LIBS@,$LIBS,;t t s,@build@,$build,;t t s,@build_cpu@,$build_cpu,;t t @@ -22727,10 +22682,12 @@ s,@DEPDIR@,$DEPDIR,;t t s,@PERL@,$PERL,;t t s,@CC@,$CC,;t t +s,@CFLAGS@,$CFLAGS,;t t s,@ac_ct_CC@,$ac_ct_CC,;t t s,@OBJEXT@,$OBJEXT,;t t s,@EXEEXT@,$EXEEXT,;t t s,@CPP@,$CPP,;t t +s,@CPPFLAGS@,$CPPFLAGS,;t t s,@CCDEPMODE@,$CCDEPMODE,;t t s,@RANLIB@,$RANLIB,;t t s,@ac_ct_RANLIB@,$ac_ct_RANLIB,;t t @@ -22739,6 +22696,7 @@ s,@OPTIONAL_BIN_ZCRIPTS@,$OPTIONAL_BIN_ZCRIPTS,;t t s,@MAN@,$MAN,;t t s,@DF_PROG@,$DF_PROG,;t t +s,@LDFLAGS@,$LDFLAGS,;t t s,@U@,$U,;t t s,@ANSI2KNR@,$ANSI2KNR,;t t s,@LIBOBJS@,$LIBOBJS,;t t As you can see, only ``right'' ac-substs are kept. /tmp/fileutils-4.0.37 % fgrep CXX configure nostromo 10:59 /tmp/fileutils-4.0.37 % nostromo Err 1 Unfortunately, Tom, this does not suffice to have automake stop from including CXX related definitions in Makefiles: /tmp/fileutils-4.0.37 % automake nostromo 11:00 /tmp/fileutils-4.0.37 % grep CXX Makefile.in nostromo 11:02 CXX = @CXX@ CXXCPP = @CXXCPP@ which, of course, still makes autoscan ask for a C++ compiler: warning: missing AC_PROG_CXX wanted by: Makefile.in:70 tests/Makefile.in:70 tests/touch/Makefile.in:70 tests/shred/Makefile.in:70 tests/rmdir/Makefile.in:70 tests/rm/Makefile.in:70 tests/mv/Makefile.in:70 tests/mkdir/Makefile.in:70 tests/ls-2/Makefile.in:70 tests/ls/Makefile.in:70 tests/ln/Makefile.in:70 tests/install/Makefile.in:70 tests/dircolors/Makefile.in:70 tests/du/Makefile.in:70 tests/dd/Makefile.in:70 tests/cp/Makefile.in:70 tests/chmod/Makefile.in:70 tests/chgrp/Makefile.in:70 m4/Makefile.in:70 man/Makefile.in:69 doc/Makefile.in:70 src/Makefile.in:68 lib/Makefile.in:70 What can we do?