Re: How to speed up 'automake'

[Karl Berry]

Unrelated to Jan's depend.am change, but it turns out that a previous
change broke make distcheck (768 failures). I don't feel right about
committing anything else until that is fixed.

Error below. Jim (or anyone), can you easily advise? I haven't delved
into this part of things before. (Not sure how many of the failures are
due to these errors, but I suspect most.) --thanks,karl.

FAIL: contrib/t/multilib
..
configure.ac:4: warning: _AM_PROG_RM_F is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
aclocal.m4:139: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:4: the top level
configure.ac:4: warning: _AM_PROG_XARGS_N is m4_require'd but not m4_defun'd
aclocal.m4:139: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:4: the top level
configure:2411: error: possibly undefined macro: _AM_PROG_RM_F
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure:2412: error: possibly undefined macro: _AM_PROG_XARGS_N