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autotools are very old #1255

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@nieder

Our autotools are very old.
Autoconf-2.69 is from 2012
Automake-1.15 is from 2017

== autoconf ==
I know autoconf-2.70 pulled in some incompatibilities. Don't know about automake.
Since we'll probably need to keep autoconf2.6 around for some time, we can replicate what we did with autoconf2.13-legacy and stick it in a hidden directory and point any packages that fail with newer autoconf to it.

== automake ==
For reference, automake1.15 currently fails these tests for me on 10.14.6:

  • check12.sh
  • dejagnu-relative-srcdir.sh
  • dejagnu-siteexp-extend.sh
  • python-virtualenv.sh (this one seems to be a confusion between sys-python2.7 and fink-python3.18)
  • check12-w.sh

For comparison, automake1.16 only fails:

  • check12.sh
  • check12-w.sh

And newest automake1.18 fails:

  • autodist.sh
  • check12.sh
  • lex-args.sh
  • check12-w.sh

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