remaining patches (was: [PATCH] build: support autobuild)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 01:05:50AM CEST:
> Any other last-minute patches to include before I start the release
> process?  Right now, it looks like I will have things out the door
> on Monday.

All stuff that I have is either not ready for prime time yet (sorry
Peter) or can wait.  I suppose I'll try to fix some of the testsuite
failures in the posted logs, but so far none look like deal-breakers,
and I'll let you deal with any resulting patches.

I've considered adding a few names to lib/autom4te.in speculatively,
since Automake will be needing more of those.  I'm not sure if that
is sensible before we have code, but it sure could help not having
to require unreleased Autoconf; as of now, I'm not aware of these
new macro branches needing other support in Autoconf explicitly.

Names I'm currently thinking of:
  AM_POT_TOOLS
  AM_XGETTEXT_OPTION
  AM_NLS                all three for the pot-primary branch

  AM_MAKEFILE_INCLUDE   for some unfinished include feature
  _AM_MAKEFILE_INCLUDE  alternatively, an internal helper macro

  AM_PATH_GUILE         for addition of Guile support

  AM_PROG_MOV           for the QT patches

What do you think?  Just add them, and garbage-collect later in case
that was overly optimistic?

Thanks,
Ralf