CVS Automake fails to make check with CVS Autoconf

[Benoit Sigoure]

Hello,

when running HEAD's make check, I get a failure:

+ aclocal-1.10a -Werror
configure.in:4: error: AC_SUBST: `$1' is not a valid shell variable name
configure.in:4: the top level
autom4te: /opt/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
+ exit 1
FAIL: subst.test

autoconf/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2042 reads:
m4_define([AC_SUBST],
[m4_bmatch(m4_bpatsubst([[$1]], [@&address@hidden), ^m4_defn([m4_re_word])$, [],
  [AC_FATAL([$0: `$1' is not a valid shell variable name])])dnl
...

FYI:
$ for i in autoconf automake libtool m4; do $i --version | sed q; done
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61b
automake (GNU automake) 1.10a
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool 1.2468 2007/06/09 17:46:40) 2.1a
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.9

(They are all from yesterday's CVS HEAD excepted GNU M4)

Maybe this test ought to be removed from Automake?

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

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