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