Recent versions of auto{make,conf} have become a pain to use.
Especially if you're using gettext too.I think that some of these tools are trying to be just a little bit too clever. One particular problem is the way in which they modify each other's input files. After a while, your Makefile.am looks like this: SUBDIRS= intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m4 intl m 4 intl m4 intl m4 intl intl m4 src intl po doc EXTRA_DIST= config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.r path mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs conf ig.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldi rs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinsta lldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mki nstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkinstalldirs config.r path mkinstalldirs config.rpath mkins And your configure.ac has a similar problem at AC_OUTPUT Also, I've never been able to ensure that po/Makefile gets its Makevars included properly --- Sometimes it does, sometimes not. If not, then one has to delete everything and try autoconf; automake ; gettextize --- in random order until things work again. It really starts to waste a lot of time, which is a shame, because a few years ago, these tools were really usefull.
