Re: fix an error message during configure

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 07:24:43PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I'm not sure applying a patch such as this is the best way to upgrade
> > these files.  If these files came from Automake then it would make sense
> > to update them from the Automake release with an installed version of
> > Automake by running "automake" or similar (it's probably done by
> > the autogen.sh script).
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant. "automake -a -c" or "AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf"
> should do that. Sorry if I wasn't clear.
> 

I see, it makes sense from earlier messages.

I have tried to untrack the files under build-aux that came from automake
to allow people to use the git repository with a different version of
automake.  Of course, at the next release we will try to use the most
recently released version.  But I don't think we can be expected to
update to the newest version in the source repository as soon as it comes
out.

build-aux/config.rpath is left but that one comes from Gnulib as you said.

Also, if I delete build-aux/ar-lib nothing appears to regenerate it.  Perhaps
it is not needed.  Running "grep ar-lib . -R" at top-level finds the
name nowhere.  So I am not sure where it came from in the diff you sent.
The only thing I can think of is that automake 1.17 uses it.