On Debian 7 : 


vanth $ uname -a 
Linux vanth 3.2.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.39-2 ppc64 GNU/Linux
vanth $ cat /etc/debian_version 
7.0

============================================================================
Testsuite summary for GNU Automake 1.13.1
============================================================================
# TOTAL: 2609
# PASS:  2370
# SKIP:  202
# XFAIL: 36
# FAIL:  1
# XPASS: 0
# ERROR: 0
============================================================================
See ./test-suite.log
Please report to bug-automake@gnu.org
============================================================================

see testsuite log attached 

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