missing autom4te

[Akim Demaille]

I'm a bit lost: the current development version number of Automake is
1.4s?

I'm waiting for an approval.

Index: ChangeLog
from  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>

        * lib/missing (autom4te): New.
        (aclocal, autoconf, automake, autoheader, help2man): Propagate
        actual failures.

Index: lib/missing
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/lib/missing,v
retrieving revision 1.17
diff -u -u -r1.17 missing
--- lib/missing 2001/07/14 19:30:42 1.17
+++ lib/missing 2001/09/03 08:39:19
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
     ;;
 
   -v|--v|--ve|--ver|--vers|--versi|--versio|--version)
-    echo "missing 0.3 - GNU automake"
+    echo "missing 0.4 - GNU automake"
     ;;
 
   -*)
@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@
     ;;
 
   aclocal)
+    if test -z "$run" && ($1 --version) > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+       # We have it, but it failed.
+       exit 1
+    fi
+
     echo 1>&2 "\
 WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
          you modified \`acinclude.m4' or \`${configure_ac}'.  You might want
@@ -97,6 +102,11 @@
     ;;
 
   autoconf)
+    if test -z "$run" && ($1 --version) > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+       # We have it, but it failed.
+       exit 1
+    fi
+
     echo 1>&2 "\
 WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
          you modified \`${configure_ac}'.  You might want to install the
@@ -106,6 +116,11 @@
     ;;
 
   autoheader)
+    if test -z "$run" && ($1 --version) > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+       # We have it, but it failed.
+       exit 1
+    fi
+
     echo 1>&2 "\
 WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
          you modified \`acconfig.h' or \`${configure_ac}'.  You might want
@@ -125,6 +140,11 @@
     ;;
 
   automake)
+    if test -z "$run" && ($1 --version) > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+       # We have it, but it failed.
+       exit 1
+    fi
+
     echo 1>&2 "\
 WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
          you modified \`Makefile.am', \`acinclude.m4' or \`${configure_ac}'.
@@ -135,6 +155,34 @@
           while read f; do touch "$f"; done
     ;;
 
+  autom4te)
+    if test -z "$run" && ($1 --version) > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+       # We have it, but it failed.
+       exit 1
+    fi
+
+    echo 1>&2 "\
+WARNING: \`$1' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your
+         system.  You might have modified some files without having the
+         proper tools for further handling them.
+         You can get \`$1Help2man' as part of \`Autoconf' from any GNU
+         archive site."
+
+    file=`echo "$*" | sed -n 's/.*--output[ =]*\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p'`
+    test -z "$file" && file=`echo "$*" | sed -n 's/.*-o[ ]*\([^ ]*\).*/\1/p'`
+    if test -f "$file"; then
+       touch $file
+    else
+       test -z "$file" || exec >$file
+       echo "#! /bin/sh"
+       echo "# Created by GNU Automake missing as a replacement of"
+       echo "#  $ $@"
+       echo "exit 0"
+       chmod +x $file
+       exit 1
+    fi
+    ;;
+
   bison|yacc)
     echo 1>&2 "\
 WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
@@ -189,6 +237,11 @@
     ;;
 
   help2man)
+    if test -z "$run" && ($1 --version) > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+       # We have it, but it failed.
+       exit 1
+    fi
+
     echo 1>&2 "\
 WARNING: \`$1' is missing on your system.  You should only need it if
         you modified a dependency of a manual page.  You may need the