Guile's `guile-aclocal.sh' script fails with automake 1.6.1. Here is the relevant part:
| # copy all installed aclocal files into $temp | cp `aclocal --print-ac-dir`/*.m4 $temp | | # remove the .m4 files installed by Guile from $temp, so they don't | # cause conflicts | rm -f ${temp}/guile.m4 ${temp}/qthreads.m4 | | aclocal --acdir=$temp -I . As far as I understand it, this fails with automake 1.6.1 because the "aclocal" library location is versioned with the automake API version. On my system, the location is /localapp/imosoft/sparcv9-sun-solaris2.7/share/aclocal-1.6 but aclocal --print-ac-dir ==> /localapp/imosoft/sparcv9-sun-solaris2.7/share/aclocal which happens to point to an old (1.4) installation of the aclocal library. When aclocal is invoked with --acdir set to a copy of this library, automake fails with these messages: configure.in:28: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an configure.in:28: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4 configure.in:28: with aclocal and run automake again. Clearly something needs to be fixed. Is it aclocal (to return the versioned "aclocal" directory) or Guile? -- Matthias Köppe -- http://www.math.uni-magdeburg.de/~mkoeppe