Re: Compiling guile-1.8.5 on a recent Cygwin with libtool 2.2.6

[Julian Graham]

> It is true that the Makefile.am patch is unnecessary, except to quiet a 
> warning given by libtoolize.  IIRC, newer versions of automake will know to 
> scan configure.[in|ac] for m4 subdirectories, but, older versions of automake 
> do not.  Yet, there are probably no systems with old automake and new libtool.


Actually, I'm unable to get autogen.sh to complete in HEAD unless I
append "-I m4" to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS as in the patch (and remove
"AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])" from configure.in).  WIthout doing that, I
get:

  libtoolize: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) conflicts with
ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS=-I guile-config.
  autoreconf: libtoolize failed with exit status: 1

In case it matters, I'm using Autoconf 2.61, Automake 1.10.1, and
Libtool 2.2.4, as part of Ubuntu 8.10.