* ./bootstrap: added a check for automake bug #326. No easy workaround is

    really possible other than patching/upgrading automake. This happens for
    automake 1.6.0 and automake 1.6.1.

bootstrap

 #! /bin/sh
 
 ##  bootstrap file for vlc, the VideoLAN Client
-##  $Id: bootstrap,v 1.15 2002/10/02 12:59:59 sam Exp $
+##  $Id: bootstrap,v 1.16 2002/10/02 16:02:43 sam Exp $
 ##
 ##  Authors: Samuel Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>
 
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ then
 fi
 
 PERLSUCKS=no
+AUTOMAKESUCKS=no
 
 ##
 ## Generate the modules makefile, by parsing modules/**/Modules.am
@@ -92,8 +93,13 @@ EOF
 AM_CONDITIONAL(${mod}_plugin, test x\$${mod}_plugin = xyes)
 AM_CONDITIONAL(${mod}_builtin, test x\$${mod}_builtin = xyes)
 EOF
-# L_ is for LIBRARIES_, D_ for DATA_, B_ for BUILT_SOURCES_, F_ for LDFLAGS_
-# _p is for _plugin, _b is for _builtin
+# Generation of Modules.am
+# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+# - L_ is for LIBRARIES_, D_ for DATA_, B_ for BUILT_SOURCES_, F_ for LDFLAGS_,
+#   S_ for SOURCES_, _p is for _plugin, _b is for _builtin. This is to reduce
+#   the resulting file size.
+# - *_CFLAGS, *_CXXFLAGS etc. include *_CPPFLAGS because per-object CPPFLAGS
+#   does not seem to work properly with any automake version I tested.
     cat >> Modules.am << EOF
 # The ${mod} plugin
 
@@ -195,6 +201,9 @@ amvers="none"
 if automake-1.6 --version >/dev/null 2>&1
 then
   amvers="-1.6"
+  if expr "`automake-1.6 --version | sed -e '1s/[^0-9]*//' -e q`" "<=" "1.6.1" > /dev/null 2>&1
+  then AUTOMAKESUCKS=yes
+  fi
 else
   if automake-1.5 --version >/dev/null 2>&1
   then
@@ -202,7 +211,11 @@ else
   else
     if automake --version > /dev/null 2>&1
     then
-      amvers=`automake --version | sed -e '1s/[^0-9]*//' -e q`
+      amvers=`echo $amvers | sed -e '1s/[^0-9]*//' -e q`
+      case $amvers in
+      1.6|1.6.0|1.6.1)
+        AUTOMAKESUCKS=yes ;;
+      esac
 
       if expr "$amvers" "<" "1.5" > /dev/null 2>&1
       then amvers="none"
@@ -325,6 +338,19 @@ case "$GETTEXT" in
   ;;
 esac
 
+case "$AUTOMAKESUCKS" in
+  no)
+  ;;
+  yes)
+    echo ""
+    echo "============================================================="
+    echo "IMPORTANT NOTE: your version of automake has a bug which will"
+    echo "prevent proper plugin compilation. Either compile VLC with"
+    echo "the --disable-plugins flag, or use a version of automake newer"
+    echo "than 1.6.1 (1.6.2 is OK, and so are the 1.5 series)."
+  ;;
+esac
+
 case "$SEDSUCKS" in
   no)
   ;;