If aclocal from automake_1.8 is invoked in a package directory, it fails with an error reporting that it cannot open a certain .m4 file required by the package's autotools macro files. Weirdest of all is that the file apparently has been found first by a macro definition contained within it. Any aclocal from earlier major versions of automake does not report such an error. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make sure automake_1.8 is installed. 2. Unpack opencdk-0.5.3 source archive from the opencdk source package. 3. Set environment variable AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.8 4. Change to the source directory opencdk-0.5.3 and run aclocal Actual Results: aclocal-1.8: cannot open libgcrypt.m4: No such file or directory
Well, all previous automake versions ignored this m4_include expression completely, you can see this by just renaming libgcrypt.m4 to foobar.m4. Since m4_include doesn't use dirlist (according to documentation, it just opens the file given as argument), I see no error in aclocal behaviour. In opencdk package, you should remove both aclocal.m4 and acinclude.m4 files. Automake should find all necessary macros using its dependency tracker logic.
