Re: patch for Autoconf testsuite 40 failure with Automake 1.4

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

 Paul> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-08/msg00051.html

 Paul> Odd.  Akim wrote "This is known and fixed now" later
 Paul> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-08/msg00134.html>
 Paul> but I don't see a fix installed.  I suspect he was confused by a
 Paul> similar fix that did get installed.  

I believe he was referring to 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-03/msg00041.html
which ended up like this
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/autoconf/autoconf/tests/torture.at.diff?r1=1.42&r2=1.39

However he patched the "Configuring subdirectories" test, which
already used configure.in, instead of "Deep Package", which
actually used both configure.in and configure.ac (maybe using
these two names was a way to check that autoreconf does not
stick to one name when recursing directories?), so the patch had
no effect.

Furthermore, support for configure.ac was introduced in Automake
1.4-p4, released on 2001-06-10 (the last version of the 1.4.x
branch being 1.4-p6 released on 2002-07-28).  That might explain
why few people reported the bug.  These bug-fix versions
introduce other changes needed to support Autoconf>=2.50, so I'm
really surprised that older versions are still used with 2.59.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz