obsolete.test failed for 1.8.5-r1 on Gentoo

[Brant Gurganus]

The obsolete.test test case failed for version 1.8.5-r1 on Gentoo.  The 
results of running that test manually from outside the Portage sandbox are:

/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work/automake-1.8.5/tests:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.4:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.3/sbin:/usr/kde/3.3/bin
=== Running test ./obsolete.test
++ pwd
/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work/automake-1.8.5/tests/testSubDir
+ cat
+ /usr/bin/perl -ne '/AU_DEFUN\(\[(\w+)\]/ && print "$1\n"' 
/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work/automake-1.8.5/tests/../m4/obsolete.m4
+ cat obs
+ /usr/bin/perl -ne 'chomp; print "grep $_ stderr || exit 1\n"; ' obs
+ /usr/bin/perl -ne 'chomp; print "grep $_ configure.in && exit 1\n"; ' obs
++ cat configure.in
++ wc -l
+ test 14 -gt 1
+ aclocal-1.8
configure.in:8: warning: AC_CANONICAL_HOST invoked multiple times
autoconf/specific.m4:393: AC_MINGW32 is expanded from...
/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work/automake-1.8.5/tests/../m4/obsolete.m4:37: 
AM_MINGW32 is expanded from...
configure.in:8: the top level
+ /bin/sh 
/var/tmp/portage/automake-1.8.5-r1/work/automake-1.8.5/lib/missing --run 
autoconf -Wobsolete
+ . ./obs.1
++ grep AC_FEATURE_CTYPE stderr
++ exit 1