Re: no-anonymous-require-file.patch

[Akim Demaille]

| What should go before these colons? `$am_file.am' or `$me'?  (In
| case the answer is `$me', should there be a `$me:' prepended to
| `configure.ac:' too?)
| 
| Index: ChangeLog
| from  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>
| 
|       * automake.in (check_gnu_standards, check_gnits_standards): Pass
|       "$am_file.am" as WHERE argument to require_file.
| 
| Index: automake.in
| ===================================================================
| RCS file: /home/adl/CVSROOT/automake-20011205-1931/automake.in,v
| retrieving revision 1.1
| diff -u -r1.1 automake.in
| --- automake.in 5 Dec 2001 18:31:20 -0000 1.1
| +++ automake.in 7 Dec 2001 20:48:17 -0000
| @@ -4927,7 +4927,7 @@
|      if ($relative_dir eq '.')
|      {
|       # In top level (or only) directory.
| -     require_file ('', GNU,
| +     require_file ("$am_file.am", GNU,
|                     qw(INSTALL NEWS README COPYING AUTHORS ChangeLog));
|      }
|  
| @@ -4952,7 +4952,7 @@
|      if ($relative_dir eq '.')
|      {
|       # In top level (or only) directory.
| -     require_file ('', GNITS, 'THANKS');
| +     require_file ("$am_file.am", GNITS, 'THANKS');
|      }
|  }

I would bind all these to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.  But of course, there is
the default case where AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS is not defined.

Your choice is fine, please install.