aclocal-1.9 and aclocal-1.10 are failing while aclocal-1.7 is not

[Christian Pagé]

Hello all,

I am quite new to autotools and I encountered a problem with the latest
versions of aclocal 1.9 and 1.10 while it works with 1.7. I was not able to
fix the problem yet.

Here is a description of the problem.
I am trying to add doxygen automated documentation build within my project.
Thus, I am trying to use Ben Kiki examples to do that. However, it fails
with aclocal-1.9 and 1.10 and not 1.7.

To reproduce the problem:

1- Download from
http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/~mmann/HowTo/automake.html<http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/%7Emmann/HowTo/automake.html>the
archive
http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/~mmann/Downloads/myDoxyLib.tar.gz<http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/%7Emmann/Downloads/myDoxyLib.tar.gz>
.

2- Uncompress & untar & cd into.

3- Run aclocal-1.10 (or aclocal-1.9). The result is:
configure.ac:19: error: AC_SUBST: `DX_FLAG_[]DX_CURRENT_FEATURE' is not a
valid shell variable name
acinclude.m4:77: DX_REQUIRE_PROG is expanded from...
acinclude.m4:117: DX_ARG_ABLE is expanded from...
acinclude.m4:178: DX_INIT_DOXYGEN is expanded from...
configure.ac:19: the top level
autom4te: /opt2/glob/uti/local/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
Exit 1

4- Run aclocal-1.7: no error reported.

My configuration was freshly built from all the latest versions:
GNU Autoconf version 2.62
GNU Automake version 1.10
GNU Libtool version 2.2.4
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.11

Any hint??

Thanks!

Christian