>  In your autotools builds for applications, etc., pay close 
>attention to the
>obsolete macro warning/errors and the option-subdirs warnings. 
>From
>http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html :
>
>Although using some of the following macros was required in past 
>releases, you
>should not use any of them in new code. All these macros will be 
>removed in the
>next major Automake version; if you are still using them, running 
>autoupdate
>should adjust your configure.ac automatically (see Using 
>autoupdate to Modernize
>configure.ac in The Autoconf Manual). Do it NOW!
>
>I have had several pieces of code hal/dcraw, etc. where I have had 
>to tweak
>these issues with autotools 1.14. So when 2.0 is released. There 
>may be
>significant work to do.

Please file a bug report. This kind of information ALWAYS gets lost 
in this list.

Darrell