-AC_ARG_WITH(distro, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-distro=DISTRO],[Specify the distribution to target: One of fedora, suse, debian, arch, gentoo or other]))
+AC_PATH_PROG([M4], [m4])
+
+AC_ARG_WITH(distro, AS_HELP_STRING([--with-distro=DISTRO],[Specify the distribution to target: One of fedora, suse, debian, arch, gentoo, slackware or other]))