Re: CVS autoconf + CVS automake = autoconf doesn't know its version

[Lars J. Aas]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:36:48PM -0500, Raja R Harinath wrote:
: Hi,
: 
: The following patch fixes a problem with CVS autoconf, if a recent
: enough CVS snapshot of automake was used on it.  
: 
: The problem is that 'automake' now depends on the AC_SUBSTs in
: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to subst in VERSION and PACKAGE.  Since the same
: 'automake' doesn't understand 'm4_include's, it does not see the
: actual definition of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (autoconf bypasses the 'aclocal'
: mechanism).  Here's a patch to autoconf to fix this.

You can also just add them directly to autoconf/Makefile.am (there's
already one such variable in there IIRC, and keeping the fixes for this
problem together seems like a better approach than to scatter them
around ;)

  Lars J