FYI: autoconf-test-in-subdir.patch

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

Presently `make distcheck' fails, because when we check
Autoconf's version in configure $AUTOCONF creates autom4te.cache
and we don't clean this.

Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.1714
diff -u -r1.1714 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog   2002/01/07 20:25:21     1.1714
+++ ChangeLog   2002/01/07 21:01:53
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2002-01-07  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>
 
+       * configure.in: Run the Autoconf test in a subdirectory, then
+       erase this directory.
+
+2002-01-07  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>
+
        * configure.in (AUTOMAKE): Create m4/amversion.m4.
        * m4/amversion.in: New file.
        * m4/Makefile.am (m4data_DATA, EXTRA_DIST): Replace by ...
Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.96
diff -u -r1.96 configure.in
--- configure.in        2002/01/07 20:25:23     1.96
+++ configure.in        2002/01/07 21:02:04
@@ -40,11 +40,15 @@
    AC_MSG_ERROR([perl 5.005 or better is required])
 }
 
-echo 'AC''_PREREQ(2.52)' > conftest.ac
-AM_RUN_LOG([eval $AUTOCONF -o /dev/null conftest.ac]) || {
+# Test for Autoconf.  We run Autoconf in a subdirectory to ease
+# deletion of any files created (such as those added to
+# autom4te.cache).
+mkdir conftest
+echo 'AC''_PREREQ(2.52)' > conftest/conftest.ac
+AM_RUN_LOG([cd conftest && eval $AUTOCONF -o /dev/null conftest.ac]) || {
    AC_MSG_ERROR([Autoconf 2.52 or better is required])
 }
-rm conftest.ac
+rm -rf conftest
 
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([automake], [chmod +x automake])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([aclocal], [chmod +x aclocal])

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz