Re: rhel8 test failure confirmation?

    Note that 'config.h' is older (4 seconds) than './configure', which 
    shouldn't be the case as it should get updated with new values.

Indeed. That is the same sort of thing as I was observing with nodef.
But what (at any level) could be causing that to happen?
Files just aren't getting updated as they should be.

I haven't yet tried older releases of automake to see if their tests
succeed on the systems that are failing now. That's next on my list.

Thanks for looking into it,
Karl