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+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2003-2012 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/>.
+
+# Make sure --help and --version work, even when no configure.ac nor
+# configure.in is in the current directory.
+
+. ./defs || Exit 1
+
+# Ensure we run in an empty directory.
+mkdir emptydir
+cd emptydir
+
+# Honour user overrides for $ACLOCAL and $AUTOMAKE, but without
+# adding extra options.
+ACLOCAL=$am_original_ACLOCAL
+AUTOMAKE=$am_original_AUTOMAKE
+
+$ACLOCAL --version
+$ACLOCAL --help
+$AUTOMAKE --version
+$AUTOMAKE --help
+
+# Sanity checks: aclocal and automake cannot work without configure.ac
+# nor configure.in.
+$ACLOCAL 2>stderr && { cat stderr >&2; Exit 1; }
+cat stderr >&2
+$FGREP configure.ac stderr
+$FGREP configure.in stderr
+AUTOMAKE_fails
+$FGREP configure.ac stderr
+$FGREP configure.in stderr
+
+: