Re: Problem with --version after compiling autoconf

On 05/30/2018 05:49 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> more likely, all the way back to Nov 1993 when Francois Pinard 
> introduced 0rNNN syntax into m4 1.1 (according to NEWS), although I 
> cannot locate a tarball or version control of m4 that old.

Some old GNU tarballs can be find at funet (Linux's first distributor). And:

http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/gnu/funet/historical-funet-gnu-area-from-early-1990s/m4-1.1.tar.gz

says that the bug in question is indeed in m4 1.1 dated 1993-11-08.

As far as I know, this holds the record for the oldest bug reported in 
GNU software so far this year. (Maybe we should give Andy a prize; how 
about a plaque inscribed in EBCDIC? :-)