Re: CVS checkout may not rerun autotools

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> I can reproduce this error.  I suggest the patch below.  OK?

Yes, thanks, that's good enough for now, though we'd like a better
solution long-term.

> Second failure: datarootdir is apparently empty.  That's weird; it
> should happen only when `configure' was created with an Autoconf version
> that is too old (before January 2005).

Yes, that's undoubtedly what happened to me.  This will continue to be
a problem for me until the next Autoconf release comes out, since I
prefer to run the latest stable versions rather than newer,
bleeding-edge stuff.