On Friday 15 June 2007 23:05:39 you wrote:

> because I had a similar problem (I tried to rebuild kdebase) as
> described in the SL-Users mail list topic "Any hint on 'builtin
> `mkstemp' requested by frozen file is not supported'?"

I was sucessfull in rebuilding kdebase on SL5 with the newest version of 
autoconf (2.61).  So I don't think it's a problem of m4. But why is it not 
possible to rebuild kdebase on our systems? At Fermilab it seems to be 
possible ...

Achim