Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes: > Hi Simon, > >> > The fix is to hide this definition from 'aclocal'. I'm applying this fix. >> > Not pretty, but it works. >> >> Thanks -- I wasn't aware that aclocal only did a heuristic search for >> definitions. > > I also expected that 'aclocal' was more robust than that. Maybe it's due to > the versions of 'aclocal' and 'autoconf' that you use? What's > $ aclocal --version > $ autoconf --version > $ autom4te --version > on your machine?
This is on a Debian Squeeze machine. jas@latte:~$ aclocal --version aclocal (GNU automake) 1.11.1 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Tom Tromey <tro...@redhat.com> and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <a...@gnu.org>. jas@latte:~$ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.67 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. jas@latte:~$ autom4te --version autom4te (GNU Autoconf) 2.67 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Akim Demaille. jas@latte:~$ /Simon