id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
705	Automake build instructions create bogus symlink	greg@…	lfs-book@…	"We currently do ""ln -s automake-1.7 /usr/share/automake"" to ""create a necessary
symbolic link""

This is not necessary at all, and is in fact completely wrong. Researching the
origin of this suggests it was only added to accomodate the BLFS package called
""sgml-common"". Inspecting the sgml-common package shows that it is clearly
broken because it only contains symlinks to the automake files when it should
obviously include the files themselves.

So we go and bodge up our LFS automake package to satisfy some broken old 3rd
party BLFS package? This is just plain wrong. The BLFS commands for sgml-common
can be modified to solve the problem by adding this at the beginning:

aclocal && automake -a -f && autoconf -f

I will remove the bogus symlink after 5.0 release and also notify BLFS to modify
the sgml-common commands."	defect	closed	lowest		Book	CVS	normal	fixed		tushar@…