On 13 Dec 2021 13:20, Jon Turney wrote:
> The 'cygnus' option was removed from automake 1.13 in 2012, so the
> presence of this option prevents a later version of automake being used.
> 
> Check-list of the effects of '--cygnus' from the automake 1.12
> documentation, and steps taken (where possible) to preserve those
> effects (See also this thread [1] for discussion on that):

to help with bisection, maybe this should be split into at least 2 patches ?
(1) turn on the new features but leave cygnus enabled.
(2) remove the cygnus option.
wdyt ?
-mike