What exactly breaks? Is this possibly a distro related issue?
Darrell
It's not distro specific:
"Noteworthy changes in autoconf version 2.64
The internal macro AH_CHECK_HEADERS has been removed; while this is an internal change that should not mean anything to properly-written autotools, this actually breaks packages using the KDE 3.x autotools-based build system, in particular the KDE_CHECK_HEADERS macro. To work with autoconf 2.64, KDE3-based software should replace the calls to the KDE-specific macro with equivalent calls to the proper, standard AC_CHECK_HEADERS macro, after properly setting up the language to C++ if needed."
In other words, we can spend a lot of time rewriting the Automake system, OR we can port to a newer and better build system in probably the same amount of time it would take to fix Automake.
Tim