Hi Derek, Recently, automake changed so that I get the following in fileutils-4.1, even though I've put a copy of mdate-sh (though not in the official tarball) in doc/. $ automake --gnits --include-deps doc/Makefile.am:2: required file `./mdate-sh' not found I don't use AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. The last time I checked, I found it didn't work because some of those aux files live at the top level, and others (like mdate-sh and texinfo.tex) belong in doc/. If I move mdate-sh to the top level directory, then automake works fine. I noted that automake does still find texinfo.tex, even though it resides in doc/. Could it be that your May 13 change is the one that induced this incompatibility? A snapshot from 2 May didn't have this problem. Since mdate-sh is used solely (in automake-generated rules, at least) to provide version.texi support, I think it makes sense to look for it first in any texinfo (e.g., doc/) directory, and only if not found there, then to search elsewhere. This problem also arises if you try to use the latest version of automake with the just-released autoconf-2.50. Regards, Jim
