automake fails to correctly parse configure.in

[Roger Leigh]

I am using autoconf 2.50 with automake 1.4-p2, and get the following
failure:

address@hidden:/tmp/test$ automake --verbose
automake: reading configure.in
automake: reading aclocal.m4
automake: reading Makefile.am
configure.in: 923: required file `./translit([$1.in' not found
automake: creating Makefile.in

The problem lies in this line in a macro:
AC_CONFIG_FILES(translit([$1], [A-Z], [a-z])-config, chmod +x translit([$1], 
[A-Z], [a-z])-config)

The filename is generated from a parameter given to the macro, so if
the macro were expanded, the real filename would be seen.  I'm not
sure why automake even requires the information; presumably to put in
a distclean rule, but it's by no means essential.

Is there any way around this problem e.g. by writing m4 in a different
style?

Regards,
Roger

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