Hello Vincent. Your snippet works correctly on my system (debian unstalbe, m4 1.4.13, autoconf 2.65). Which version of m4 do you have? What happens if you change the definition of `v_rev' to: m4_define([v_rev], m4_esyscmd([(svnversion . | grep -v exported || echo 0) | awk -F : '{printf("%s", $][1);}' | tr 'A-z' ' ' | sed 's/ //g' Regards, Stefano _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf