I can't find any reference to a macro named "database", but if I use that word in my m4 script, it gets expanded to usually the value of the last argument provided to previous macro. It's quite frustrating, since I need to use the word "database" for other things.
The word "database" isn't found anywhere on the m4 site, according to Google, so I'm not really sure what's going on. Thanks, Brent Gulanowski Marketcircle Inc.