Sorry; I should have paid more attention to which file I was reading. That came from acinclude.m4, from the debian XMMS package (the m4 is probably included with xmms), not aclocal.m4.
The EGREP bug is still there, however - If someone somehow manages to trigger that codepath (various OSs still uses file_magic), they'll get unexpected results. A (possibly non-exaustive) list of OSs that will still trigger the bug: bsdi4 and bsdi5 freebsd and dragonfly (i*86 only, and only with __ELF__ undefined) hpux10.20 and hpux11 newos6 sysv4 and sysv4.3 (motorola and sequent only) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]