"Johnny C. Lam" wrote:

> There is the larger problem of the version of autoconf used by the
> author to generate the configure script not matching the version of
> autoconf we use, which is why the author always include the generated
> configure script with the sources.

  Yes, that's actually what I meant when I talked about deviation ;-| 
This is also one of the reasons why I prefer using the original
"configure" script over using autoconf.

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene