Description of Problem: The depout-mf.patch (introduced in 1.5-2) uses the statement | dirpart=`AS_DIRNAME("$mf")` I don't know exactly why, but this breaks some builds. Minimal example is ---- $ cat >configure.ac <'EOF' AC_INIT(X,1,X) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(X,1) AM_OUTPUT_DEPENDENCY_COMMANDS AC_OUTPUT() EOF $ autoreconf autoreconf: `aclocal.m4' is created configure:1988: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_DIRNAME autoreconf: autoconf failed with exit status: 1 at /usr/bin/autoreconf line 356 ---- Perhaps it's an autoconf issue, but because previous automake versions (without this patch) worked fine, I am entering it here... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): automake-1.5-2 autoconf-2.52-5
The patch was backed out in 1.5-4. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56624 ***