I think the line at 1260 from automake-1.4d in the function
handle_single_transform_list:
1260 &require_file ($FOREIGN, 'compile')
1261 if $lang eq 'c';
should instead read:
1260 &require_config_file ($FOREIGN, 'compile')
1261 if $lang eq 'c';
This makes the error about not finding './compile' go away.
I now have it in config subdirectory. Or perhaps, one of
the *with_line functions?
It also appears at line 4752, but is qualified with a
if $relative_dir eq '.', so don't think this change is
needed.
Paul