> As I pointed in a previous post, it is however set in m4/missing.m4 in > autoconf 2.52 source tree, so it should be possible to use it with plain > autoconf I suppose. missing.m4 also defines AM_MISSING_PROG. I agree though > that the names of these macros sound very automakeish :)
Yes, autoconf's configure wants recent versions of the automake macros, so it includes its own copies (usually copied straight from CVS automake), which are included from a manually maintained aclocal.m4. This only imports them for use in _autoconf's_ configure script though,not in all configure scripts generated by autoconf. Only macros from lib/autoconf/*.m4 are included in standard autoconf. Basically, you should not be looking for available macros in the source tree, but in the installed tree ($prefix/share/autoconf/) to be precise.
