Automated fix for automake 1.13 changes

[Adam Mercer]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> I agree. Besides, the ports that use automake depend on port:automake so they cannot benefit from an automake-devel port, unless we change them all to depend on path:bin/automake:automake. We'd also need to make the same change in MacPorts base (in ./src/port1.0/portconfigure.tcl) and release a new version of MacPorts base.

Good point, that'd probably be more work than fixing the macros in the
first place.

>> If 1.13.1
>> already broke so much, it might be easiest to simply switch to 1.13.1b
>> in the main automake port now (it probably cannot break more than the
>> last version did?) to be able to discover other remaining problems
>> before the release of 1.13.2. Then MacPorts can switch to 1.13.2 as
>> soon as that version comes out.
>
> I'd be ok with that. I'd also be ok with just waiting until 1.13.2 is released.

I've updated to 1.13.1b locally to test it out and will keep an eye
out for the 1.13.2 release, I don't like the idea of using a beta
release for such an important port.

Cheers

Adam