At least for autoconf-2.69 AS_INIT is called by AC_INIT.

When using /bin/dash calling AS_INIT directly leads to infinite
reexec loop.

Gentoo-bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/475248
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index eb0002f..6c77ef9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.62)
 AC_INIT([GARDEN], 
 	[1.0.8], 
 	[bubla@users.sourceforge.net])
-AS_INIT
+
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/input.h])