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+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Check that 'aclocal.m4' is not automatically distributed if not
+# required to build 'configure'.  This is *really* a corner-case
+# check, and the behaviour it checks is not documented either, so
+# if that behaviour is deliberately changed in the future, just
+# remove this test.
+# Related to automake bug#7819.
+
+. ./defs || Exit 1
+
+{ echo 'm4_include([defs.m4])'
+  cat configure.ac
+  echo 'AC_OUTPUT'
+} > t
+mv -f t configure.ac
+
+cat > Makefile.am <<'END'
+.PHONY: test
+test: distdir
+	ls -l $(distdir)
+	test ! -f $(distdir)/aclocal.m4
+	echo $(DISTFILES) | grep 'aclocal\.m4' && exit 1; :
+	echo $(DIST_COMMON) | grep 'aclocal\.m4' && exit 1; :
+check-local: test
+END
+
+: > defs.m4
+$ACLOCAL
+mv -f aclocal.m4 defs.m4
+
+$AUTOMAKE
+$AUTOCONF
+
+./configure
+$MAKE test
+$MAKE distcheck
+
+: