Automatically Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs

I've read (and use the recipes from) the automake manual section "Handling Tools that Produce Many Outputs". However, these recipes require a lot of boilerplate code which annoyingly obscures the actual rule they are protecting - a two line rule is swamped by a dozen lines of boilerplate. It's ju

ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS looks like no effect on make

Hi, This time I'm running Automake 1.10. According to "6.3.4 Handling Local Macros" in the manual ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 line should instruct both autoreconf and make to use these flags when autoconf is executed. But in my case autoreconf does use the flags (autoreconf is nice enough to und