Hello,
I don't either know what the root cause of your problem is, but it seems
to me it could not hurt if checks/Makefile.in used the same shell and
$(MAKE) initialization as did all the automake-generated Makefiles.
Cheers,
Ralf
2008-01-31 Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* checks/Makefile.in: Use @SET_MAKE@, and use @SHELL@ rather
than hard-coding /bin/sh.
Report by Lawson Chan.
diff --git a/checks/Makefile.in b/checks/Makefile.in
index 6d93144..b9d384e 100644
--- a/checks/Makefile.in
+++ b/checks/Makefile.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
## Makefile.in - template for building Makefile for M4 testsuite.
##
-## Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-##
+## Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software
+## Foundation, Inc.
## This file is part of GNU M4.
##
## GNU M4 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -17,10 +17,11 @@
## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
## along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@
PACKAGE = @PACKAGE@
VERSION = @VERSION@
-SHELL = /bin/sh
+SHELL = @SHELL@
bindir = @bindir@
exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
