+rm -fr $bt $bt2 || exit
+
+# Remove any dangling symlink matching "*.m4" or "*.[ch]" in some
+# gnulib-populated directories. Such .m4 files would cause aclocal to fail.
+# The following requires GNU find 4.2.3 or newer. Considering the usual
+# portability constraints of this script, that may seem a very demanding
+# requirement, but it should be ok. Ignore any failure, which is fine,
+# since this is only a convenience to help developers avoid the relatively
+# unusual case in which a symlinked-to .m4 file is git-removed from gnulib
+# between successive runs of this script.
+find "$m4_base" "$source_base" \
+ -depth \( -name '*.m4' -o -name '*.[ch]' \) \
+ -type l -xtype l -delete > /dev/null 2>&1