Automated fix for automake 1.13 changes

[Joshua Root]

On 2013-1-21 15:31 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Jan 20, 2013, at 18:04, Joshua Root wrote:
> 
>> On 2013-1-20 22:34 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jan 19, 2013, at 20:26, Adam Mercer wrote:
>>>> It seems that upstream are thinking of adding these macros back into automake:
>>>>
>>>> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2013-01/msg00140.html>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what the plans for the future are but it looks like they
>>>> may be back in automake-1.13.2 so we may not need to modify the ports,
>>>> at least for the time being...
>>>
>>> That's good to hear! In that case I'm much happier to just wait for 1.13.2.
>>
>> Sounds good to me. We still need to patch the affected ports where a new
>> upstream release isn't likely to come soon (or ever), but this gives us
>> some breathing room. For the rest we can just refer the problem upstream.
> 
> If the macros which were removed in 1.13.0 are reinstated in 1.13.2, then we don't need to spend our time making these changes anymore, since it will once again work without them like it did before 1.13.0, and we can go back to making changes that actually make a difference for MacPorts.

I got the impression they're not coming back forever, they're just going
to have a reasonable period where they print a deprecation warning but
still work, like should have happened in the first place.

That may end up being years for all I know, but as I said above, we
still have to patch anything that isn't fixed upstream in that time.

- Josh