Re: Support for configure.ac

[Akim Demaille]

| > |  At no time an old copy of automake is run.
| > 
| > You don't seem to understand.  Make a
| > 
| > diff automake.in automake
| > 
| > and I think you'll see what I mean.
| 
| % grep @CONFIGURE_AC@ Makefile.in 
| $(srcdir)/stamp-vti: automake.texi $(top_srcdir)/@CONFIGURE_AC@
| %
| 
|  If autoconf, not automake is responsible for substituting @CONFIGURE_AC@
|  in the Makefile, then this simply doesn't work with autoconf-2.13, only
|  with autoconf-cvs.

Could you please run

        diff automake.in automake

and see if it helps you understanding what I'm trying to say?  I agree
I'm not clear, and I believe the diff will be much clearer than I am.