Re: Support for configure.ac

[Lars Hecking]

> Yes, indeed.  But I just switched me brains on, and understood.
> 
> Sure you have the new .am files, but since the Makefile want to update
> the Makefiles first, you run an old automake which does not, indeed,
> substitute @CONFIGURE_AC@.  So find a means, but you have to `make
> automake' before making the Makefiles.  On your system automake.in is
> new, but not automake yet.

 At no time an old copy of automake is run.

$ pwd
/tmp/automake
$ ./configure
[...]
$ make automake
cd . && /tmp/automake/aclocal --acdir=m4
cd . && /tmp/automake/automake --amdir=. --gnits Makefile
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
cd . && /bin/sh /tmp/automake/missing --run autoconf
[...]
$ make dist
make: *** No rule to make target `@CONFIGURE_AC@', needed by `stamp-vti'.  Stop.
$