problems with mdate-sh and version.texi without AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR in 1.4f

[Kevin Dalley]

If AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR is not used, and version.texi is in a doc
directory, than "automake -a" installs mdate-sh in top_srcdir, but the
Makefile.in in the doc directory tries to use mdate-sh in srcdir,
which mdate-sh does not exist.

One approach to a fix is to use mdate-sh in top_srcdir, and I include
a patch for that solution below.  Installing mdate-sh in the doc
directory would work instead.

--- automake-1.4f.orig/automake.in
+++ automake-1.4f/automake.in
@@ -2863,7 +2863,7 @@
            }
            else
            {
-               $conf_dir = '$(srcdir)/';
+               $conf_dir = '$(top_srcdir)/';
            }
            $output_rules .= &file_contents ('texi-vers',
                                             ('TEXI'  => $info_cursor,


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