FAIL: autopoint-3

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

While trying to update the Debian package for gettext I found this:

FAIL: autopoint-3
=================

make[7]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add '+' to parent make 
rule.
<command-line>: error: macro names must be identifiers
make[8]: *** [Makefile:506: hello.o] Error 1
make[7]: *** [Makefile:542: all-recursive] Error 1
FAIL autopoint-3 (exit status: 1)

To discard that this could be a Makefile bug, I forced the tests
to run sequentially and then the error message changed slightly:

FAIL: autopoint-3
=================

configure.ac:3: installing './compile'
configure.ac:3: installing './config.guess'
configure.ac:3: installing './config.sub'
Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
FAIL autopoint-3 (exit status: 1)

Finally, I inserted "set -x" at the top and tried again.
This is how it ends:

[...]
+ cp -p po/Makevars.template po/Makevars
+ echo hello.c
+ aclocal -I m4
+ test 0 = 0
+ false
+ autoconf
+ test 0 = 0
+ touch ltmain.sh
+ automake -a -c
+ test 0 = 0
+ : /bin/bash
+ /bin/bash ./configure
+ test 1 = 0
+ cat autopoint.err
configure.ac:3: installing './compile'
configure.ac:3: installing './config.guess'
configure.ac:3: installing './config.sub'
Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
+ Exit 1
+ set +e
+ exit 1
+ exit 1
+ remove_tmp_
+ __st=1
+ cleanup_
+ :
+ test '' = yes
+ cd WORKDIR/gettext-0.22.5/gettext-tools/tests
+ chmod -R u+rwx WORKDIR/gettext-0.22.5/gettext-tools/tests/gt-autopoint-3.dJMU
+ rm -rf WORKDIR/gettext-0.22.5/gettext-tools/tests/gt-autopoint-3.dJMU
+ exit 1
FAIL autopoint-3 (exit status: 1)


Any idea about what this could be?

This is for gettext version 0.22.5, my debian/patches directory is currently 
empty
and I'm trying to make it work without running autoreconf, using Debian 
unstable.

Thanks.