Re: 1.4-p1 chokes after autoupdate

[Kevin Dalley <kevind at rahul dot net>]

This bug is fixed in the CVS release, but it would be nice to have the
fix in 1.4-p2.

"Steve M. Robbins" <steven.robbins@videotron.ca> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've switched to autoconf-2.50.
> 
> After running "autoupdate" (it seemed like a good idea at the time), I
> discovered that automake 1.4 can't find any of the Makefile.am's.
> This is because autoupdate replaced the AC_OUTPUT with AC_CONFIG_FILES
> in configure.in.
> 
> I think this patch fixes it, and I would be very pleased if this makes
> it into 1.4-p2.
> 
> -S
> 
> 
> --- /usr/bin/automake	Mon May 21 19:41:31 2001
> +++ /tmp/automake	Wed May 23 08:52:31 2001
> @@ -4054,6 +4054,11 @@
>  	    $in_ac_output = 1;
>  	    $ac_output_line = $.;
>  	}
> +	if (! $in_ac_output && s/AC_CONFIG_FILES\s*\(\[?//)
> +	{
> +	    $in_ac_output = 1;
> +	    $ac_output_line = $.;
> +	}
>  	if ($in_ac_output)
>  	{
>  	    local ($closing) = 0;
> 
> 
> -- 
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> by Airplane to the Rocket,
> by Taxi to the Airport,
> by Frontdoor to the Taxi,
> by throwing back the blanket and laying down the legs ...
> - They Might Be Giants
> 

-- 
Kevin Dalley
SETI Institute
kevin@seti.org