Hello Howard, thanks for the report.
* Howard Larson wrote on Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 09:48:23PM CEST: > Autoconf -o foo.txt does not result in file foo.txt It does for me: $ echo AC_INIT > configure.ac $ autoconf -o foo.txt configure.ac $ ls -l foo.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 ralf ralf 48490 Sep 13 08:02 foo.txt Which system are you on, how exactly can this be reproduced? Which m4 version do you use? Can you please run the testsuite, and if any tests fail, send tests/testsuite.log? That should also shed some light on the other failure you reported. Thanks, Ralf
