Testsuite fails on hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 with m4-1.4.18

[John David Anglin]

In trying to update from m4-1.4.17 to m4-1.4.18, I encountered a number on new 
testsuite fails.  There
were no test fails with 1.4.17.  Both versions were configured identically and 
used the same build compiler.
I suspect the problem is with gnulib update.  The generated config.h files are 
quite different.

Here is the test log.  As can be seen, there are cases where 'm4' changes to 
'?'.  Everything looks like
problems in handling the standard output files.

Dave

nohup: ignoring input
  GEN      public-submodule-commit
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PATH=`pwd`/../src":"$PATH; export PATH; \
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../../checks/*[0-9][0-9][0-9].* ../../checks/stackovf.test
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.18
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Rene' Seindal.
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 f:     ``$0'1'
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