* doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Document ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS

limitation reported by Leo Moisio in
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432941>.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8126e88b78f0b65ef6238caf7980029bc724f190..f75e70d122a49e4c7cc0d6730435f4faa3ac87df 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2007-07-13  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (autoreconf Invocation): Document ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
+       limitation reported by Leo Moisio in
+       <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432941>.
+
 2007-07-03  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
        * COPYING: Update to GPLv3.  All uses changed.

diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index 129db554ec30c991f841ee59b170a1a4ad15245e..63020280506cab39c4e9daa85dae4161d091883d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -1665,6 +1665,9 @@ none,obsolete}.
 
 If you want @command{autoreconf} to pass flags that are not listed here
 on to @command{aclocal}, set @code{ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS} in your @file{Makefile.am}.
+Due to a limitation in the Autoconf implementation these flags currently
+must be set on a single line in @file{Makefile.am}, without any
+backslash-newlines.
 
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