Bug#370282: Worth mentioning that Gnome needs a fix for newer Autoconf?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Loïc Minier wrote on Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:51:03AM CEST:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> > First, Autoconf is supposed to warn about the suspicious usage of
> > datadir without defining datarootdir.  Did the warning not work for
> > you?  If so, can you show us how to reproduce the problem easily?
> 
>  Autoconf first warned of the non-handling of datarootdir in my
>  Makefiles when I tried to only update ./configure, and didn't complain
>  anymore when I updated **/Makefile.in, but the problem lies in a m4
>  macro which runs at configure time, and has nothing to do with
>  datarootdir in Makefiles IMO.

And right you are.  I'll make sure the 2.59d announcement will be more
general in this respect.

Thanks again,
Ralf