This tunrs out to be a bug with m4 which manifests itself on Solaris.
See this post to the m4-bug list:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-m4/2004-07/msg00029.html
-Vance
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:25:12PM -0400, Vance Shipley wrote:
}
} $ aclocal
} configure.ac:2:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 01:25:12PM -0400,
Vance Shipley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
a message of 31 lines which said:
$ aclocal
configure.ac:2: /usr/local/bin/m4: ERROR: Reading inserted file: No such file or
directory
I suspect that a M4 included file is actually a dangling symlink. Goto
