--- configure.in	Mon Oct  7 15:31:58 2002
+++ configure.out	Mon Oct  7 15:38:59 2002
@@ -981,8 +981,10 @@
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-dnl LTLIBOBJS=`echo X"$LIB@&t@OBJS"|[$Xsed -e "s,\.[^.]* ,.lo ,g;s,\.[^.]*$,.lo,"]`
-LTLIBOBJS=`echo X"$LIBOBJS"|[$Xsed -e "s,\.[^.]* ,.lo ,g;s,\.[^.]*$,.lo,"]`
+dnl This version is this incompatible with older versions of autoconf
+AC_PREREQ(2.53)
+LTLIBOBJS=`echo X"$LIB@&t@OBJS"|[$Xsed -e "s,\.[^.]* ,.lo ,g;s,\.[^.]*$,.lo,"]`
+dnl LTLIBOBJS=`echo X"$LIBOBJS"|[$Xsed -e "s,\.[^.]* ,.lo ,g;s,\.[^.]*$,.lo,"]`
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