autotools versions

[Jasper Huijsmans]

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> But now, how can I tell the autogen script to use the right version,
> ie to call automake-1.73 instead of just automake ?
> 
> I tried with aliases, no success, I tried to set
> AUTOMAKE=automake-1.73, no success (not surprising the autogen.sh
> script doesn't use that variable anyway).
> 
> Any idea ?
> 

Well, the obvious answer seems to be that our autogen scripts are broken
and should be fixed. I can't really see another way.