Some points that could be made better:
1. Get rid of configure options that should not be used,
and are only useful for make distcheck. I think it
may be one case where AC_SUBST() can have an
important role in the proper solution?
2. Replace most gratuitous AC_SUBST(VAR) by usage
Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote:
2. Replace most gratuitous AC_SUBST(VAR) by usage
of $(VAR) in the Makefile.am's. It not only allows
using %make VAR=someval, but also has the
benefit of a cleaner configure.ac.
Sounds good to me.
3. In video drivers configure.ac's, there is a