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    > Sorry, Francesco, I forgot to tell you that the RC branch needs
    > Autoconf 2.13, and cannot work with a newer Autoconf.  The switch to 
    > Autoconf 2.5x was done on the trunk only.

    Is there any way to make it compatible with both 2.13 and 2.5x?

I agree that would be a good thing to do.  I hesitated to install
the new configure.in which requires Autoconf 2.53, but it would be nice
to make the old one support both Autoconf versions if that is possible.