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) ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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