The attached patch fixes two of the problems: Thanks, I pushed that.
There are still four testsuite failures on my dev box, After applying your patch, running make -j12 check against autoconf 2.70, I get those failures and several more (as in your case, they don't appear with 2.69): FAIL: t/distcheck-missing-m4.sh FAIL: t/distcheck-outdated-m4.sh FAIL: t/libobj-basic.sh FAIL: t/remake-not-after-make-dist.sh FAIL: t/vala-non-recursive-setup.sh FAIL: t/distcheck-missing-m4 FAIL: t/distcheck-outdated-m4 FAIL: t/libobj-basic FAIL: t/remake-not-after-make-dist FAIL: t/vala-non-recursive-setup (Perhaps there are new nondeterministic failures with parallel make.) Sigh. I'll investigate when I can, time permitting, but if by chance anyone else is willing to look into it, please do. Thanks, Karl