The reason for adding this option is to kill a warning with automake 1.14. However, the "make distclean" target does not work with the subdir-objects options for older versions of automake. To still allow older versions of automake, we remove this option and live with the warning when using automake 1.14.
This reverts commit
03343bd4e63f946b463fa4e97e70d449cadf6622.
AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
save_PACKAGE=$PACKAGE
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-define 1.8 subdir-objects])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-define 1.8])
m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES],[AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
PACKAGE=$save_PACKAGE