Re: many test failures due to unexpanded m4_PACKAGE_YEAR

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:06:12PM CEST:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/19/2009 11:51 AM:
> > +configure:2218: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_PACKAGE_YEAR
> > 
> > where this is the configure section being complained about:
> > 
> > Copyright (C) m4_PACKAGE_YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> 
> I've seen this as well, when lib/m4sugar/version.m4 is not up-to-date.  I
> think we may have a missing dependency, where incremental builds do not
> recreate the file correctly.  For me, 'rm lib/m4sugar/version.m4' followed
> by 'make' seemed to clear it up.

Hmm, that's actually disconcerting; but thank you for the hint, that
solved my problem at least: Makefile.in rebuilding was skipped because
the needed automake version was not found, and the old Makefile.in never
caused m4_PACKAGE_YEAR to be defined.  (This was from a git tree.)

Cheers,
Ralf