When creating built sources, gnulib-tool should obey the environment variables that the user has set (those that are listed at the top of gnulib-tool).
2010-04-02 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> gnulib-tool: Obey user's environment variables. * gnulib-tool (func_create_testdir): When creating built sources, respect the environment variables for autoconf, automake, etc. given by the user. --- gnulib-tool.orig Fri Apr 2 16:54:29 2010 +++ gnulib-tool Fri Apr 2 16:54:09 2010 @@ -5143,7 +5143,9 @@ ./configure || func_exit 1 cd "$sourcebase" echo 'built_sources: $(BUILT_SOURCES)' >> Makefile - $MAKE built_sources || func_exit 1 + $MAKE AUTOCONF="${AUTOCONF}" AUTOHEADER="${AUTOHEADER}" ACLOCAL="${ACLOCAL}" AUTOMAKE="${AUTOMAKE}" AUTORECONF="${AUTORECONF}" AUTOPOINT="${AUTOPOINT}" LIBTOOLIZE="${LIBTOOLIZE}" \ + built_sources \ + || func_exit 1 cd .. $MAKE distclean || func_exit 1 ) || func_exit 1