Bugs in lisp sections of ./prepare and make

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

About the time the new branch was created, something broke in
./prepare

Starting from a fresh download of the CVS source, I see
./prepare
[various stuff]
automake: configure.in: required file `../config.guess' not found
automake: configure.in: required file `../config.sub' not found
Some part of the preparation process failed.
Please refer to INSTALL for details.

This failure comes specifically from the line
	cd lisp && aclocal && automake && autoconf

This problem is overcome by doing
	touch ./config.guess ./config.sub; ./prepare

However, I still have the problem from some time back
that the lisp target in the default make sequence tries to
write files to
	/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp

Since this is a system directory, the make fails for non-root users.
I have worked around the problem on my own machines by
giving myself write access to this directory, but that's an ugly hack.

Can someone who understands lisp + autoconf please
fix these problems?


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