two expansions of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in your configure.ac.
...
diagnostic message was certainly not very useful!
Fully agreed.
Nick, any chance you could easily write a patch to generate a decent
error message for this? I am tied up with other projects for a while.
--thanks, karl.
Thanks to both of you for your help. I think it was very, very likely
that I made a mistake using autotools, as I have very little experience
using them. I sent the email just because the message recommends doing
so, and was expecting that the problem was the detection of the error or
the messa
