libnih.m4 provides incompatible AC_COPYRIGHT macro

[ensc]

libnih installs a system wide libnih.m4 file which overrides the standard AC_COPYRIGHT() macro. The new macro breaks compilation of existing projects (e.g. curl) which contain multi-line copyright messages. Generated makefiles will be broken due to lines like

| PACKAGE_COPYRIGHT = Copyright ...
| This package ...

libnih should not override AC_COPYRIGHT system wide but move it into a private .m4 file which is not installed by 'make install'.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Yeah, this should be NIH_COPYRIGHT I guess and call AC_COPYRIGHT as part of its implementation. It made sense when you copied nih/*.m4 into your own source trees, but not when installed globally

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~scott/libnih/trunk/revision/1037

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

1.0.2 2010-04-27

        * AC_COPYRIGHT wrapper renamed to NIH_COPYRIGHT. (Bug: #519278)

        * Serial added to libnih.m4 to stop aclocal overwriting a local
          copy with an older installed copy.

        * NIH_WITH_LOCAL_LIBNIH macro added that can be used by external
          sources to add a --with-local-libnih configure argument.