* 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? 

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