[Xastir-dev] autoconf 2.53

[Chuck Byam]

I've been experimenting with the latest release of autotools, specifically 
autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.6.  What I've found is that the newer automake 
functionality will break a number of older installs, but I think I can safely 
use my development configure.in with autoconf 2.53 and older installs.  
Before I make a commit I'd like to hear from others.  I've managed to 
clean-up a lot of the configure routines and plan to deprecate a number of 
the routines in acinclude.m4 because the autotool routines do a good job of 
finding these dependencies.  My only concern is there are a lot of users that 
have old(er) distros installed and this may cause problems for them.

Current development platform:
Red Hat 7.93 (pre 8)
gcc 3.2
glibc 2.2.9
aclocal 1.6
autoconf 2.53
automake 1.6
OpenMotif 2.2
the usual assortment of ImageMagic, festival, etc...

Chuck