autoconf 2.68b loops on Solaris 10 sparc (test 75)

The symptoms are: $ cd tests; make check TESTSUITEFLAGS=75 make check-local /bin/bash ./testsuite 75 ## -- ## ## GNU Autoconf 2.68b test suite. ## ## -- ## 75: Configure re-execs self with CONFIG_SHELL and it hangs until I do a ^C. "truss

Perl version problem in autoconf-2.68b

I tried to build Autoconf 2.68b on our production Solaris 8 sparc host (yes, we still have some in production), and the build failed as follows: autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='\ ../lib/autom4te.cfg' ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/li

autoconf-2.68b released [beta]

The GNU Autoconf team is pleased to announce the beta release of Autoconf 2.68b. Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manu