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From:   Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
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Subject: Autotools version
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Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to build 2.24.1 from sources. It is failing on an old
Fedora machine with the error:

    Autoconf 2.59 or higher is required

The irony of Autootools checking version numbers is not lost on me
considering I only run configure, make and make install.

Would it be possible to drop the Autotools version back to earlier
versions of Git?

Jeff