Hello JDC, Thanks for the bug report.
* JDC wrote on Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:58:05PM CET: > Look at the line(s) concerning Emacs. There isn't any path information. > > m4 was upgraded to m4-1.4.8 before autoconf-2.60 attempted installation > make was upgraded to make-3.81 before autoconf-2.60 attempted > installation All failures you observe are due to the fact that the Autoconf 2.60 testsuite assumes an older M4. But that's not a problem. You can use it. If you would like to see the testsuite passing, I suggest you upgrade to Autoconf 2.61 (don't downgrade M4). Cheers, Ralf