On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:25:24AM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Package: automake1.7 > > Version: 1.7.9-7 > > Severity: normal > > File: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7 > > > > Hello Eric, > > > > when running aclocal (1.7 but also with 1.4), it grabs macros that > > does not seems wanted and have problematic side-effect. > > > > Let configure.in be just > > AC_INIT(test.c) > > AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(test,0) > > or even the empty file. > > > > now run aclocal, > > you get a different aclocal.m4 whether you have gettext installed or not. > > > > In particular, if you have gettext installed, it will get a > > AC_PREREQ([2.54]) > > which will break if you are using an older version of autoconf, > > while everything would work fine if gettext was not installed. > > > > So i have some questions: > > > > 1) why aclocal is adding macros to aclocal.m4 even if configure.in is empty > > ? > > > > 2) can I disable the use of third-party .m4 file (i.e. only use the one > > shipped with automake) ? > > Does this happen with automake1.9 as well?
Well, I have rechecked the five automake version in etch and it seems that currently only aclocal-1.4 has this problem, so this bug should probably be reassigned to automake1.4 Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
