problems with example in section 3.4 of manual

[Marty Leisner]

I'm learning autotools...

With autoconf 2.58, in section 3.4 of the manual there's an example:

:1 address@hidden 01:40:26; cat configure.ac 
AC_DEFINE(This, is [an
[example]])
:1 address@hidden 01:40:27; autoconf -t 'AC_DEFINE:@: $@
*: $*
$: $%'        

It seems to put autom4te in an infinite loop...
 6127 mleisner   1  10    0 6168K 5680K cpu/1    3:44 49.10% autom4te

and outputs:
autom4te: invalid escape: $:


This was on sparc/solaris.

On linux/intel with autoconf 2.57 I get quick termination (same error).

With 2.13, the -t option isn't there...


On redhat 8, 2.58 also infinite loops, 2.53 has the quick termination.

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