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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/>.
+
+# The stub rules emitted to work around the "deleted header problem"
+# for '.m4' files shouldn't prevent "make" from diagnosing a missing
+# required '.m4' file from a distribution tarball.
+# See discussion about automake bug#9768.
+# See also sister test 'dist-missing-m4.test'.
+
+. ./defs || Exit 1
+
+cat >> configure.ac <<'END'
+m4_include([foobar.m4])
+m4_include([zardoz.m4])
+AC_OUTPUT
+END
+
+: > foobar.m4
+: > zardoz.m4
+
+: > Makefile.am
+
+$ACLOCAL
+$AUTOCONF
+$AUTOMAKE
+
+./configure
+
+# A faulty distribution tarball, with a required '.m4' file missing.
+# Building from it should fail, both for in-tree and VPATH builds.
+ocwd=`pwd` || fatal_ "cannot get current working directory"
+for vpath in false :; do
+  $MAKE distdir
+  test -f $distdir/zardoz.m4 # Sanity check.
+  rm -f $distdir/zardoz.m4
+  if $vpath; then
+    # We can't just build in a subdirectory of $distdir, otherwise
+    # we'll hit automake bug#10111.
+    mkdir vpath-distcheck
+    cd vpath-distcheck
+    ../$distdir/configure
+  else
+    cd $distdir
+    ./configure
+  fi
+  $MAKE >output 2>&1 && { cat output; Exit 1; }
+  cat output
+  # This error will come from automake, not make, so we can be stricter
+  # in our grepping of it.
+  grep 'zardoz\.m4.*does not exist' output
+  grep 'foobar\.m4' output && Exit 1 # No spurious error, please.
+  cd "$ocwd" || fatal_ "cannot chdir back to top-level test directory"
+done
+
+: