Bootstrap issues

[Stefano Lattarini]

With automake 1.13.1, there are these issues:

  configure.ac:149: warning: The 'AM_PROG_MKDIR_P' macro is deprecated, and 
will soon be removed.
  configure.ac:149: You should use the Autoconf-provided 'AC_PROG_MKDIR_P' 
macro instead,
  configure.ac:149: and use '$(MKDIR_P)' instead of '$(mkdir_p)'in your 
Makefile.am files.
  >
  > These are basically noise, safe to ignore, will disappear once the required 
Gettext
  > version is upgraded; and plans for removal of AM_PROG_MKDIR_P have been 
dropped, so
  > this warning won't become a fatal error anyway.  I think it's best to just 
ignore it.

  Makefile.am:152: error: 'pkglibexecdir' is not a legitimate directory for 
'LTLIBRARIES'
  >
  > This is a hard error, and is causing the actual failure

  Makefile.am:158: warning: variable 'EXTRA_modules_gnu_la_SOURCES' is defined 
but no program or
  Makefile.am:158: library has 'modules_gnu_la' as canonical name (possible 
typo)
  Makefile.am:166: warning: variable 'EXTRA_modules_m4_la_SOURCES' is defined 
but no program or
  Makefile.am:166: library has 'modules_m4_la' as canonical name (possible typo)
  ... (and scores of similar warnings).
  >
  > I haven't investigated these.

  ...
  parallel-tests: installing 'build-aux/test-driver'
  autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
  bootstrap: autoreconf failed
  >
  > This is what bootstrap reports on the stdout/stderr, but than it exists
  > with status 0.  Yikes!

HTH,
  Stefano