autoconf version 1.6.1 or later

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:15:07PM +0200, Pascal wrote:
> I juste wanted to know if there is a special reason not to put autoconf 1.6.1 
> or later in breezy ?
> 
> the hidden reason is trying to implement what is suggest in kde whish 
> [Bug 70538] Webcam support for MSN
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70538
> comment #43
> 
> which obviously need a very recent autoconf :
> 
> make -f Makefile.cvs
> This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
> This will be deleted before making the distribution
> 
> *** YOU'RE USING automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p6.
> *** KDE requires automake 1.6.1 or newer
> make[1]: *** [cvs] Erreur 1
> make: *** [all] Erreur 2
> 

So install it.  My breezy system (upgraded from hoary) has automake1.9,
version 1.9.5-1 (and autoconf version 2.59a-3).  Note the following
from the package description:

 Automake 1.9 fails to work in a number of situations that Automake
 1.4, 1.6, 1.7 and 1.8 did, so has been renamed so that the previous
 version can continue to be made available.

All of these are in breezy's main repository.