[debbugs-tracker] bug#20416: closed (message about ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS)

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> message about ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
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> Fri, 24 Apr 2015 11:15:12 +0200
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> Mutt/1.5.23-6425-vl-r76280 (2015-03-04)
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> With libtool 2.4.2 (but 2.4.6 seems to behave in the same way
> according to the source), after removing a ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS line
> in Makefile.am of some software, I get:
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> autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
> libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
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> See the last line, about ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.
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> However the Automake NEWS file says:
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>   - The ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS special make variable will be fully deprecated in
>     Automake 2.0: it will raise warnings in the "obsolete" category (but
>     still no hard error of course, for compatibilities with the many, many
>     packages that still relies on that variable).  You are advised to
>     start relying on the new Automake support for AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
>     instead (which was introduced in Automake 1.13).
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> meaning that ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS should no longer be used and
> AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS should be used instead, which is currently done
> and taken into account, as seen above.
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> Vincent Lefèvre <address@hidden> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
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> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
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> Re: message about ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
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> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:00:06 +0200
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> Mutt/1.10.1+96 (4350694b) vl-108074 (2018-09-18)
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> On 2015-04-24 11:15:12 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > With libtool 2.4.2 (but 2.4.6 seems to behave in the same way
> > according to the source), after removing a ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS line
> > in Makefile.am of some software, I get:
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> > [...]
> > autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
> > libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> > libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> > libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR, `m4'.
> > libtoolize: copying file `m4/libtool.m4'
> > libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltoptions.m4'
> > libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltsugar.m4'
> > libtoolize: copying file `m4/ltversion.m4'
> > libtoolize: copying file `m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
> > libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> > [...]
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> > See the last line, about ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS.
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> > However the Automake NEWS file says:
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> >   - The ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS special make variable will be fully deprecated in
> >     Automake 2.0: it will raise warnings in the "obsolete" category (but
> >     still no hard error of course, for compatibilities with the many, many
> >     packages that still relies on that variable).  You are advised to
> >     start relying on the new Automake support for AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
> >     instead (which was introduced in Automake 1.13).
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> > meaning that ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS should no longer be used and
> > AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS should be used instead, which is currently done
> > and taken into account, as seen above.
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> This seems to be fixed with the libtool 2.4.6-4 Debian package
> (and this doesn't seem to be due to a Debian patch)... or perhaps
> the incorrect message was due to some old thing in some file (or
> some other obscure reason): I no longer get the
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>   libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
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> message. And if I remove AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) from configure.ac,
> I get a correct message:
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>   libtoolize: Consider adding 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' to configure.ac,
>   libtoolize: and rerunning libtoolize and aclocal.
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> Anyway, since I cannot reproduce the bug, I'm closing it.
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> Vincent Lefèvre <address@hidden> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
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