> I've not got things totally working...except for one small detail.  When I
> run autoreconf to build my configure script on a machine with m4 version
> 1.4.1 things are great.  When I run autoreconf on a machine with m4 version
> 1.4, things don't work.  An example of some of the diffs I see in the
> resulting configure script is below.  I'm going to work on upgrading m4 (and
> the autoconf home page recommends >= 1.4.7 so I should probably upgrade
> both) but is there something I can put in the m4 files to bail out if
> there's an insufficient version of m4?

CVS autoconf (and thus the eventual autoconf 2.62) requires
m4 1.4.5 or better (all prior versions have a bug that have caused
known trip-ups in debugging packages that use gettext).

Look at autconf/m4/m4.m4 for the way to test for this bug.

-- 
Eric Blake



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