autotools updates

[sezero]

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[AliceLR]

Confirmed the AM_SILENT_RULES issue is fixed by this patch. I'm not sure if the pkg-config part made a difference.

What's going on with my Snow Leopard/Xcode 3.2.6 Autotools (Autoconf 2.61, Automake 1.10) seems to be that the pkg-config/pkgconf macros are in /opt/local/share/aclocal, so the stock Autotools can't see them (sensible). autogen.sh succeeds without notifying about the missing macros, then ./configure fails.

This computer's PATH has /opt/local/bin at the end (not sure if an old MacPorts artifact or a deliberate change I made a long time ago)—PATH="/opt/local/bin:$PATH" ./autogen.sh and having MacPorts Autoconf/Automake installed seems to be the only way I can get a valid configure script.

I can try to build an era-appropriate non-MacPorts pkg-config if this issue is worth pursuing further, otherwise, I'll just fix my environment.

[sezero]

I just added a local copy of pkg.m4: try again.

[AliceLR]

Stock Autoconf/Automake/m4 with MacPorts pkgconf works now (808b05b tested, the later revisions don't look like they'd affect anything). OK to merge?

[sezero]

OK to merge?

Yep :)