Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> but I haven't a .git directory!

Yes, in that case the intent was to skip the 'git' stuff by default. I never 
test in an environment that lacks 'git' so I didn't run into the problem when 
hacking on autoconf.sh.

I installed the attached, which should fix the problem. Please give it a try 
(from the previous paragraph one can easily see that I have not tested that the 
patch actually fixes the problem :-).