Greetings: I currently work at Tufts University. When we build software packages, we always put the source in CVS so we can monitor what local customizations we've made to various packages. However, by default, CVS does not preserve the relative age of files when you check out an entire tree for building. automake's makefile does not deal well with this. Specifically, it tries to rebuild the top-level aclocal.m4 and Makefile.in, chokes, and dies. As I expect neither of these files should ever be rebuilt by the build process, could you alter your makefile to exempt them?
Thanks, MJB
