As of the original 1.13 release two macros where removed from Automake: AM_PROG_CC_STDC (replaced by AC_PROG_CC as provided by autoconf) and AM_CONFIG_HEADER (replaced by AC_CONFIG_HEADERS). These were later reintroduced in 1.13.1, but not with the original behavior---they just give an error message. The maintainer is new and really didn't listen to the community telling him not to do this.
With my (former) Autotools developer hat on, I believe this is a horrible mistake and it will be a big hassle for everyone involved in distro packaging. Deprecation is okay, but in this case the macros were not providing any "feature" and as such were largely unnoticed. Myself, I had never bothered replacing them in my projects. Automake 1.13.1 is already in rawhide and we need to do something about it before a F19 mass rebuild starts. Choices are: 1) introducing automake-1.12: I believe distros should agree on _not_ introducing an automake-1.12 or similar package and get the Automake maintainer to fix his mess. 2) fixing all packages individually: sounds like a nightmare. From a very small collection of ~20 autoconfiscated packages whose "fedpkg prep" output I have ready on my machines, I get 4 hits: $ grep AM_CONFIG_H */*/configure.ac irqbalance/irqbalance-1.0.3/configure.ac:AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) lsscsi/lsscsi-0.25/configure.ac:AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) sed/sed-4.2.1/configure.ac:AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h:config_h.in) udisks/udisks-1.0.4/configure.ac:AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h) 3) reintroducing the macros in Fedora's 1.13.1 version. My favorite. Any other opinions? Paolo -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
