Re: how to avoid automake dependency?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

[ let's cut bug-gnulib from this ]

Hello Sam,

* Sam Steingold wrote on Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:00:19AM CEST:
[...]
>
> cd src; automake gllib/Makefile
> configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
> configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
> configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
> configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
[...]
>
> $ grep -nH AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE src/configure.in
> src/configure.in:22:AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
> $ ls src/autoconf/aclocal.m4
> 584 src/autoconf/aclocal.m4

How did you generate this aclocal.m4?  Why does it not live in src
as specified?  (The toplevel directory is the one configure.ac lives in.)

Cheers,
Ralf