Actually the patch against Makefile.am was not enough, I had to do the same change in Makefile.in and got the brand new rpm built. Running in now.
Besides that, Gerd, your point is more general than that. Anyway, should we need the whole first steps in a CVS (autogen, automake, etc) to have the cutting edge cleanest code ?
Being an IT for a living on some Mainframe software for 18 years (So you understand the "old" part of my nick

), I can relativise what is important and what is not in a project, you know, and there are times were rules may be a bit transgressed
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Having bison and flex settings absolutely "kosher" is not the most urgent thing, I guess.