--- autoupdate.in.orig	Tue May 22 15:21:59 2001
+++ autoupdate.in	Fri Sep 28 18:10:56 2001
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ my $debug = 0;
 my $localdir = '.';
 # m4.
 my $m4 = $ENV{"M4"} || "@M4@";
+$m4.=" -g -D__gnu__";
 my $verbose = 0;
 my $SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX = $ENV{'SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX'} || '~';
 my $tmp = '';
@@ -204,8 +205,8 @@ sub parse_args ()
 sub find_slaves ()
 {
   # Some non-GNU m4's don't reject the --help option, so give them /dev/null.
-  die "Autoconf requires GNU m4 1.4 or later\n"
-    if system "$m4 --help </dev/null 2>&1 | fgrep reload-state >/dev/null";
+#  die "Autoconf requires GNU m4 1.4 or later\n"
+#    if system "$m4 --help </dev/null 2>&1 | fgrep reload-state >/dev/null";
 
   # autoconf.
   (my $dir = $0) =~ s,[^\\/]*$,,;
