Re: AC_CONFIG_FILES problem with Automake 1.7.1

[Akim Demaille]

| It appears from some debug messages I inserted, that the argument to
| AC_CONFIG_FILES is never extracted -- which is consistent with the
| regular expression error above.  I tried several things to test this
| out:
| 
| o moved the first Makefile to the same line as AC_CONFIG_FILES;
| o removed the continuation characters and new lines;
| o removed all but the first 4-5 files so the AC_CONFIG_FILES was on a
| single line;
| o verified no spaces after the "\"'s;
| 
| The third option was the only one that worked!  That is, it works if all
| of the files fit on a single line so the closing paren is also on the
| same line as the macro.  (No big surprise here, right?)
| 
| Unfortunately, we currently have 213 files that we want to pass.  Any
| ideas for a work-around would be _greatly_  appreciated.

Your problem is very suprising.  Please, run

        autoconf -t 'AC_CONFIG_FILES:${::}%'

and report the output.  Thanks!