autoheader fails (ITS#2561)

[jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com]

Full_Name: Jean-Frederic Clere
Version: HEAD
OS: linux
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After changing acconfig.h I am not able to generate include/portable.in
autoheader fails with the following error message:
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WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
 
WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
WARNING: `acconfig.h':
 
WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
 
WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
WARNING: documentation.
aclocal.m4:3908: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
../autoconf/types.m4:289: AM_TYPE_PTRDIFF_T is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:3908: the top level
autoheader: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
 at /opt/SMAWPlus/bin/autoheader line 163
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I am using autoheader version 2.53