Akim Demaille pointed out that the use of autoconf and automake in Stratego and XT is antiquated, and badly needs to be updated to more modern versions of these tools. I had already encountered this problem when trying to build on a FreeBSD^? machine. The first fix is to renovate the current scripts and makefiles such that they will pass through newer versions of the autotools.

This turned out not to be such a problem. The issues were:

Automake enforces consistent usage of = and =+

The AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS macro used in the Autobundle macro AB_CONFIG_PKG is no longer used. I found a simple fix for this problem using google. The fix defines the old style macro in terms of the new one, if it was not defined yet:

  ifdef([AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS],[],
    [AC_DEFUN([AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS],[subdirs=$1; _AC_OUTPUT_SUBDIRS])])

StrategoRelease09 is generated using autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.5

-- EelcoVisser - 16 Nov 2002