Re: automake aclocal bug

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Hi Tim,

On Friday 13 July 2001  9:20 pm, Tim Mooney wrote:
> aclocal from automake 1.4-p4 (and almost certainly all previous versions)
> has a minor but annoying bug with regard to the output of macro names it
> can't find a definition for.  Specifically, if the macro name contains
> a number anywhere in the name, such as
>
>       AM_PROG_XML_I18N_TOOLS
>
> then regexes in scan_configure and add_file only match up to the character
> before the first number, and that's as much of the macro name as they
> report in the error output.

Good call.  Applied in branch-1-4.

> Also, since active development is taking place on aclocal, I believe the
> Copyright years should be updated.  I'm not expert on copyright law,
> though.

Now that you mention it, I found sevral files that I have changed this year 
without updating the copyright.  All fixed now =)O|

Cheers,
        Gary.
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