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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# These are the files that this script might edit:
+#    aclocal.m4 configure Makefile.in src/config.h.in \
+#    depcomp config.guess config.sub install-sh missing mkinstalldirs \
+#    ltmain.sh
+#
+# Here's a command you can run to see what files aclocal will import:
+#  aclocal -I ../autoconf --output=- | sed -n 's/^m4_include..\([^]]*\).*/\1/p'
+
+set -ex
+rm -rf autom4te.cache
+
+trap 'rm -f aclocal.m4.tmp' EXIT
+
+# Use version 1.9 of aclocal and automake if available.
+ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.9
+if test -z `which "$ACLOCAL"`; then
+  ACLOCAL=aclocal
+fi
+
+AUTOMAKE=automake-1.9
+if test -z `which "$AUTOMAKE"`; then
+  AUTOMAKE=automake
+fi
+
+# glibtoolize is used for Mac OS X
+LIBTOOLIZE=libtoolize
+if test -z `which "$LIBTOOLIZE"`; then
+  LIBTOOLIZE=glibtoolize
+fi
+
+# aclocal tries to overwrite aclocal.m4 even if the contents haven't
+# changed, which is annoying when the file is not open for edit (in
+# p4).  We work around this by writing to a temp file and just
+# updating the timestamp if the file hasn't change.
+"$ACLOCAL" --force -I m4 --output=aclocal.m4.tmp
+if cmp aclocal.m4.tmp aclocal.m4; then
+  touch aclocal.m4               # pretend that we regenerated the file
+  rm -f aclocal.m4.tmp
+else
+  mv aclocal.m4.tmp aclocal.m4   # we did set -e above, so we die if this fails
+fi
+
+grep -q LIBTOOL configure.ac && "$LIBTOOLIZE" -c -f
+autoconf -f -W all,no-obsolete
+autoheader -f -W all
+"$AUTOMAKE" -a -c -f -W all
+
+rm -rf autom4te.cache
+exit 0