Jim Meyering wrote:
I actually wrote a patch to fix the automake bug that led to this, but did not find the time to write a stand-alone test case. Today, I wrote the commit log entry and am attaching the incomplete diff (no NEWS and no test) here, in case someone wants to help move this along before I find time.
Thanks, I installed that patch into automake (Savannah micro branch). This should fix Bug#21815 so I'll close that bug report while I'm at it.