many test failures due to unexpanded m4_PACKAGE_YEAR

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

I'm getting a lot of test failures on FreeBSD with m4 1.4.11, they all
look more or less like this:

11. tools.at:430: testing ...
../../autoconf/tests/tools.at:440: autoconf --force 
--- /dev/null   Sun Apr 19 16:08:35 2009
+++ 
/home/rwild/ac/build-i386-unknown-freebsd6.2/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/11/stderr
        Sun Apr 19 16:08:35 2009
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+configure:2218: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_PACKAGE_YEAR
+      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
+      See the Autoconf documentation.
../../autoconf/tests/tools.at:440: exit code was 1, expected 0
11. tools.at:430: 11. autoconf: automatically allowed tokens (tools.at:430): 
FAILED (tools.at:440)


where this is the configure section being complained about:

cat >>$CONFIG_STATUS <<_ACEOF || ac_write_fail=1
ac_cs_version="\\
config.status
configured by $0, generated by GNU Autoconf 2.63.186-74bb,
  with options \\"`$as_echo "$ac_configure_args" | sed 's/^ //; 
s/[\\""\`\$]/\\\\&/g'`\\"

Copyright (C) m4_PACKAGE_YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This config.status script is free software; the Free Software Foundation
gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it."

ac_pwd='$ac_pwd'
srcdir='$srcdir'


Any hints?

Thanks,
Ralf