Re: Support for configure.ac

[Raja R Harinath]

Lars Hecking <address@hidden> writes:
> > |  At no time an old copy of automake is run.
> > 
> > You don't seem to understand.  Make a
> > 
> > diff automake.in automake
> > 
> > and I think you'll see what I mean.
> 
> % grep @CONFIGURE_AC@ Makefile.in 
> $(srcdir)/stamp-vti: automake.texi $(top_srcdir)/@CONFIGURE_AC@
> %
> 
>  If autoconf, not automake is responsible for substituting @CONFIGURE_AC@
>  in the Makefile, then this simply doesn't work with autoconf-2.13, only
>  with autoconf-cvs.

I see this even with an installed automake.  It appears that
'texi-vers.am' doesn't have the CONFIGURE_AC transform before being
inserted into Makefile.in.  From automake.in, in &handle_texinfo,
around line 2277

            $output_rules .=
                &file_contents_with_transform
                    ('s/address@hidden@/' . $info_cursor . '/g; '
                     . 's/address@hidden@/' . $vti . '/g; '
                     . 's/address@hidden@/' . $vtexi . '/g;'
                     . 's,address@hidden@,' . $conf_pat . ',g;',
                     'texi-vers');

Note the lack of the @CONFIGURE_AC@ transform.

- Hari
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