Revert "Add definition of AS_ECHO for compatibility with Autoconf before 2.62."

This reverts commit d0a5f97842ef1598d07a6e3f10bab1543a38aa4d.

Partner corrected earlier report that the reverted commit helped.  It
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diff --git a/m4/as_echo.m4 b/m4/as_echo.m4
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--- a/m4/as_echo.m4
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-# This file is part of Autoconf.                          -*- Autoconf -*-
-# M4 sugar for common shell constructs.
-# Requires GNU M4 and M4sugar.
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008,
-# 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-# This file is part of Autoconf.  This program is free
-# software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
-# terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
-# Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# Under Section 7 of GPL version 3, you are granted additional
-# permissions described in the Autoconf Configure Script Exception,
-# version 3.0, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# and a copy of the Autoconf Configure Script Exception along with
-# this program; see the files COPYINGv3 and COPYING.EXCEPTION
-# respectively.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-# Written by Akim Demaille, Pavel Roskin, Alexandre Oliva, Lars J. Aas
-# and many other people.
-
-# Define AS_ECHO for compatibility with Autoconf before version 2.62.
-m4_ifndef([AS_ECHO], [
-
-# AS_ECHO(WORD)
-# -------------
-# Output WORD followed by a newline.  WORD must be a single shell word
-# (typically a quoted string).  The bytes of WORD are output as-is, even
-# if it starts with "-" or contains "\".
-m4_defun_init([AS_ECHO],
-[AS_REQUIRE([_$0_PREPARE])],
-[$as_echo $1])
-
-
-# AS_ECHO_N(WORD)
-# ---------------
-# Like AS_ECHO(WORD), except do not output the trailing newline.
-m4_defun_init([AS_ECHO_N],
-[AS_REQUIRE([_AS_ECHO_PREPARE])],
-[$as_echo_n $1])
-
-
-# _AS_ECHO_PREPARE
-# ----------------
-# Arrange for $as_echo 'FOO' to echo FOO without escape-interpretation;
-# and similarly for $as_echo_n, which omits the trailing newline.
-# 'FOO' is an optional single argument; a missing FOO is treated as empty.
-m4_defun([_AS_ECHO_PREPARE],
-[[as_nl='
-'
-export as_nl
-# Printing a long string crashes Solaris 7 /usr/bin/printf.
-as_echo='\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'
-as_echo=$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo
-as_echo=$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo
-# Prefer a ksh shell builtin over an external printf program on Solaris,
-# but without wasting forks for bash or zsh.
-if test -z "$BASH_VERSION$ZSH_VERSION" \
-    && (test "X`print -r -- $as_echo`" = "X$as_echo") 2>/dev/null; then
-  as_echo='print -r --'
-  as_echo_n='print -rn --'
-elif (test "X`printf %s $as_echo`" = "X$as_echo") 2>/dev/null; then
-  as_echo='printf %s\n'
-  as_echo_n='printf %s'
-else
-  if test "X`(/usr/ucb/echo -n -n $as_echo) 2>/dev/null`" = "X-n $as_echo"; then
-    as_echo_body='eval /usr/ucb/echo -n "$][1$as_nl"'
-    as_echo_n='/usr/ucb/echo -n'
-  else
-    as_echo_body='eval expr "X$][1" : "X\\(.*\\)"'
-    as_echo_n_body='eval
-      arg=$][1;
-      case $arg in @%:@(
-      *"$as_nl"*)
-       expr "X$arg" : "X\\(.*\\)$as_nl";
-       arg=`expr "X$arg" : ".*$as_nl\\(.*\\)"`;;
-      esac;
-      expr "X$arg" : "X\\(.*\\)" | tr -d "$as_nl"
-    '
-    export as_echo_n_body
-    as_echo_n='sh -c $as_echo_n_body as_echo'
-  fi
-  export as_echo_body
-  as_echo='sh -c $as_echo_body as_echo'
-fi
-]])# _AS_ECHO_PREPARE
-])