Re: [Leo Moisio] Bug#432941: autoconf: autoreconf can't handle multi-line assignment to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks for reporting the problem.  I installed this doc fix for now.

* doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Document ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
limitation reported by Leo Moisio in
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432941>.
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.1162
diff -u -p -r1.1162 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi   26 Jun 2007 17:42:27 -0000      1.1162
+++ doc/autoconf.texi   13 Jul 2007 17:38:09 -0000
@@ -1665,6 +1665,9 @@ none,obsolete}.

 If you want @command{autoreconf} to pass flags that are not listed here
 on to @command{aclocal}, set @code{ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS} in your @file{Makefile.am}.
+Due to a limitation in the Autoconf implementation these flags currently
+must be set on a single line in @file{Makefile.am}, without any
+backslash-newlines.

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