Re: Trunk r117046 fails on systems with older automake

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
> Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 11:00:26 +0900
> Cc: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Glenn Morris writes:
> 
>  > I interpret this to mean that your aclocal is broken
> 
> It's not *his* aclocal, as several people have reported the same
> behavior.  It's unlikely that all of these users have made the same
> unfortunate change, instead it's likely that the various upstreams are
> experiencing a coordination failure.
> 
> The responsibility for such coordination lies with Emacs in the end,
> not with the users.
> 
>  > You need to get it working somehow, and then teach it where the
>  > pkg.m4 file that pkg-config provides is installed, if it cannot
>  > figure it out itself.
> 
> Oh, the irony of it all! given that autoconf and friends are supposed
> to do that figuring out, and do it *portably*.[1]

Actually, nothing special is needed beyond installing pkg-config and
making sure its pkg.m4 file is in the directory where aclocal looks
for such files.