Fix the tests so they don't fail :)
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79505

insthook:
update the head/tail syntax since coreutils has deprecated the old style

dirname,ccnoco:
rip patches from fedora

--- automake-1.5/tests/insthook.test.orig	2005-01-30 09:02:48.622592064 -0500
+++ automake-1.5/tests/insthook.test	2005-01-30 09:03:00.332811840 -0500
@@ -17 +17 @@
-test x$lnum != x && tail +$lnum Makefile.in | head -3 | grep install-exec-hook
+test x$lnum != x && tail -n +$lnum Makefile.in | head -n 3 | grep install-exec-hook
diff -u automake-1.5/tests/dirname.test automake-1.6.3/tests/dirname.test
--- automake-1.5/tests/dirname.test	2003-04-25 15:44:56.000000000 +0900
+++ automake-1.6.3/tests/dirname.test	2003-04-25 15:44:56.000000000 +0900
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 . $srcdir/defs || exit 1
 
 cat > configure.in << 'END'
-AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT
+AC_INIT
 echo "1 /a/path/to/a/file      = _AM_DIRNAME([/a/path/to/a/file])"
 echo "2 another/path/to/a/file = _AM_DIRNAME([another/path/to/a/file])"
 echo "3 file                   = _AM_DIRNAME([file])"
@@ -15,17 +15,13 @@
 echo "7 /file                  = _AM_DIRNAME([/file])"
 END
 
-# Fail gracefully if no autoconf.
-$needs_autoconf
-
 $ACLOCAL || exit 1
-$AUTOCONF || exit 1
-
-# fail gracefully if autoconf didn't support AC_PLAIN_SCRIPT, because it won't
-# support our regexps anyhow
-test -s configure || exit 77
+# fail gracefully if autoconf didn't support support our regexps anyhow
+$AUTOCONF || exit 77
 
-$SHELL ./configure >got || exit 1
+# Use --quiet otherwise unwelcome messages like "loading site script"
+# would cause a failure.
+./configure --quiet >got || exit 1
 
 cat >wanted <<EOF
 1 /a/path/to/a/file      = /a/path/to/a
@@ -40,4 +36,3 @@
 diff wanted got || exit 1
 
 exit 0
-
diff -u automake-1.5/tests/ccnoco.test automake-1.6.3/tests/ccnoco.test
--- automake-1.5/tests/ccnoco.test	2003-06-07 06:34:18.000000000 +0900
+++ automake-1.6.3/tests/ccnoco.test	2003-06-07 06:34:18.000000000 +0900
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
 }
 END
 
-$needs_autoconf
 gcc -v || exit 77
 
 cat > Mycomp << 'END'
@@ -51,7 +50,7 @@
     ;;
 esac
 
-exec gcc ${1+"$@"}
+exec gcc "$@"
 END
 
 chmod +x Mycomp
@@ -59,6 +58,10 @@
 set -e
 
 
+# Ignore user CFLAGS.
+CFLAGS=
+export CFLAGS
+
 for conf in configure.1 configure.3; do
    cp $conf configure.in