Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:

> I think this is a symptom of using an old Automake (< 1.12, I think),

> which did not define $(abs_top_srcdir).

> Can you confirm?

I thought I could, using guix ;-)

But building the automake package fails with an enormous number of errors in the check phase:

============================================================================

Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.12.6

============================================================================

# TOTAL: 2530

# PASS: 1318

# SKIP: 259

# XFAIL: 35

# FAIL: 880

# XPASS: 0

# ERROR: 38

Andreas