We're pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.7.9.
* Rebuild with Autoconf 2.59. (1.7.8 was not installable with pdksh.)
What is this "Autoconf 2.59" of which you speak? I saw this
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2003-11/msg00010.html
But there does not yet appear to be a tarball available.
-- Chuck