While compiling third-party software I get 'AM_WITH_EXPAT' undefined errors while running automake. expat-devel turns out not to install expat.m4 This is with expat-2.0.1.fc9. Attached is a specfile patch to install the .m4 file in %{_datadir}/aclocal. It also silences rpmlint warnings for the generated -debuginfo RPM as well as I ran into that by accident. Furthermore automake 1.10.1 generates a warning while using the default expat.m4 as included in the distribution; I've sent the (very simple) patch upstream, but I also include it here as the second attachment. It is also used by the new .spec file. If Fedora upstream policy defaults to waiting for an upstream release before including these kinds of patches, I'm fine with dropping this part of the diff.
Created attachment 311355 [details] patch to expat.spec
Created attachment 311356 [details] patch for conftools/expat.m4 to silence automake 1.10.1 patch for conftools/expat.m4 to silence automake 1.10.1
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