Only needed if building from CVS. You should really use source-dists if you don't know exactly what you are doing. I got bitten by some bug which seems to break the configure files generated under mingw32. But on the other hand, autoconf shouldn't hurt..
/ Marcus Agehall (Scanian)
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2004-05-11 00:15: Subject: Pike @ win32
3.5) Install autoconf?
/ Martin Nilsson (räfsfiskal)