--- bin/autoupdate.in.orig	Thu Oct 29 02:53:40 2009
+++ bin/autoupdate.in	Mon Mar  8 12:26:47 2010
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ my @include = ('@pkgdatadir@');
 my $force = 0;
 # m4.
 my $m4 = $ENV{"M4"} || '@M4@';
+$m4.=" -g -D__gnu__";
 
 
 # $HELP
@@ -398,9 +399,9 @@ EOF
        or error "cannot close $tmp/input.m4: $!";
 
     # Now ask m4 to perform the update.
-    xsystem ("$m4 --include=" . shell_quote ($tmp)
-	     . join (' --include=', '', map { shell_quote ($_) } reverse (@prepend_include))
-	     . join (' --include=', '', map { shell_quote ($_) } @include)
+    xsystem ("$m4 -I" . shell_quote ($tmp)
+	     . join (' -I', '', map { shell_quote ($_) } reverse (@prepend_include))
+	     . join (' -I', '', map { shell_quote ($_) } @include)
 	     . " " . shell_quote ("$tmp/input.m4") . " > " . shell_quote ("$tmp/updated"));
     update_file ("$tmp/updated",
 		 "$file" eq "$tmp/stdin" ? '-' : "$file");