[wdiff-bugs] 0.5.90 tarball doesn't build due to time stamp problems?

[Paul Eggert]

I tried building wdiff 0.5.90 from the alpha tarball on CentOS 5.4
with Sun Studio 12 cc and got the following failure.  Perhaps the
tarball should get respun with proper time stamps on files?

$ CC=cc ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking how to suppress newlines using echo... option
checking for gnudiff... no
checking for diffgnu... no
checking for gdiff... no
checking for diff... /usr/bin/diff
checking for less... /usr/bin/less
checking for gcc... cc
checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (cc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for minix/config.h... no
checking for POSIXized ISC... no
checking for cc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for function prototypes... yes
checking for working const... yes
checking for inline... inline
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking return type of signal handlers... void
checking for size_t... yes
checking for malloc in -lmalloc... no
checking for tputs in -ltermcap... yes
checking for termcap.h... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for vprintf... yes
checking for strstr... yes
checking whether NLS is wanted... yes
checking for gettext... yes
checking for gettext in -lintl... no
checking whether the included gettext is preferred... yes
checking for locale.h... (cached) yes
checking for setlocale... yes
checking for stpcpy... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking which translations to install... cs de es fr nl no pl ru sv
checking for working malloc... yes
checking for working realloc... yes
checking if malloc debugging is wanted... no
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating i18n/Makefile
creating lib/Makefile
creating m4/Makefile
creating src/Makefile
creating src/cbars
creating tests/Makefile
creating tests/atconfig
creating config.h
$ make
cd . && aclocal -I m4
m4/realloc.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of jm_FUNC_REALLOC
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
m4/malloc.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of jm_FUNC_MALLOC
m4/gettext.m4:47: warning: underquoted definition of fp_WITH_GETTEXT
m4/atconfig.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AT_CONFIG
m4/atconfig.m4:21: warning: underquoted definition of fp_PROG_ECHO
aclocal:m4/gettext.m4:89: warning: macro `AM_LC_MESSAGES' not found in library
cd . && automake --gnits --include-deps Makefile
cd . && autoconf
configure:6774: error: do not use LIBOBJS directly, use AC_LIBOBJ (see section 
`AC_LIBOBJ vs LIBOBJS'
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure:7292: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_LC_MESSAGES
make: *** [configure] Error 1