[dropping automake-patches] On Sunday 29 May 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > [Adding automake-patches] > > On Saturday 28 May 2011, Graham Reitz wrote: > > Hi Stefano, > > > > Did you have a chance to take a look at the config and test logs? > > (they are attached) > > > > I've been trying to figure it out without much success. > > > I think I've found the problem: the `aclocal.in' and `automake.in' > "templates" (from which the `aclocal' and `automake' scripts are > generated) fail to honour the AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE defined at > configure time, and simply use literal "autom4te" and "autoconf" > instead. This is a real bug in Automake's own build system, and > is still present in the latest developement version. The attached > two-patches series (for maint) should fix it. Graham, do you mind > trying if it solves your problem? > Notwithstanding this patch, I'm convinced that there are still bugs and rough-edges in the support for overriding AUTOCONF and AUTOM4TE at configure time. Thus I suggest Graham (and any other user in a similar situation) to follow the previous suggestions by Daniel Herring: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-05/msg00025.html> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2011-05/msg00026.html> i.e. simply put the latest versions of the autotools early in PATH, and set up a proper `dirlist' file for them in case third-party m4 macros are used.
HTH, Stefano
