2003-12-01
  Reordered tmpdir creation to avoid orphan dirs on --help
  and --version.  (Corinna Vinschen)

2003-07-17
  WANT_AUTOCONF_VER variable support added; now you can
  override the auto-detection logic by setting this environment
  variable.

2003-07-16
  (autoreconf) Add opt_make
  (autoreconf) Add opt_warnings  
  (autoscan)   Add opt_debug
  (ifnames)    Add opt_macrodir

2002-10-28
  autom4te wrapper now unconditionally calls the version 
    on the devel branch.  Needed to do this because (a)
    autom4te only exists on the devel branch, so why bother?
    and (b) autom4te supports re-ordered options; this is
    too difficult to support in a bash wrapper script without
    a compelling reason.

2002-10-21
  add support for new '--prepend-include' option to (most)
    scripts
  fix --trace handling

2002-07-13
  massive reorg to prevent duplication of code
  use mkscript.sh to build each script
  fragments/ directory contains the core fragments of each
    script.
  options/ directory contains snippets that help process
    each argument.  opt_foo.var establishes the tracking
    variable, opt_foo.option contains the case) statement
    for detecting and processing the option, and opt_foo.finish
    helps coalesce the variable setting (if necessary).
  As it happens, the ONLY purpose of running configure is now
    to create top.frag from top.frag.in, and to create the
    Makefile.

2002-03-17
  update to autoconf-2.53, which adds an extra script:
  autom4te

2002-03-12
  add guard to avoid infloop when -devel or -stable not
  installed (Pavel Tsekov)

2002-03-06
  Don't obliterate M4PATH; merely prepend the appropriate
  directory to the existing path.

2002-03-06
  Add special handling for calling the scripts with the 
  '--version' option, from within directories that do not 
  have configure.ac/.in

2001-11-24
  Removed all of the cygwin-specific files and notes.  Hopefully, 
  autoconf-scripts can be used on other platforms now without
  problems.  The cygwin-specific (packaging-related) files and 
  build scripts have been placed in an external patch, per the 
  cygwin packaging scheme.
  
