Problems with AC 2.66 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF

[Jeff Squyres]

I think my issue is a dup of 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2010-07/msg00009.html, but I 
figured I'd report it anyway on the off chance that it's not.

I reduced my problem to a trivial configure.ac script that mainly calls 
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([void *]).  It fails in autoreconf -ivf.  

Shell output is worth a 1,000 words:

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$ ls -l
total 8
drwxrwxr-x  4 jsquyres  staff  136 Jul 22 09:28 ac266-install/
drwxr-xr-x  5 jsquyres  staff  170 Jul 22 09:28 autom4te.cache/
-rw-r--r--  1 jsquyres  staff   70 Jul 22 09:24 configure.ac
$ ./ac266-install/bin/autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.66
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
$ cat configure.ac 
AC_INIT([test], [123], [my_url])
AC_PROG_CC
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([void *])
$ ./ac266-install/bin/autoreconf -ivf
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force 
configure.ac:3: error: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF: requires literal arguments
../../lib/autoconf/types.m4:765: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF is expanded from...
configure.ac:3: the top level
autom4te: /opt/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: /Users/jsquyres/tmp/bogus/ac266-install/bin/autom4te failed with exit 
status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
$ 
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