reassign 373669 automake1.4 thanks * Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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
Thanks, reassigning. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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