Changes since V1:

1. Kay pointed out that "autoreconf -i" is just as simple as "./autogen.sh"

2. Testing from a fresh checkout revealed a number of oversights. I've sorted them out and "autoreconf -i; tests/runtests" should now work on a clean checkout.

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This patch series aims to make the testsuite more convenient to run,
both for "upstream" development and for integration with package managers.

It changes "make check" or "tests/runtests" to do a separate
JUST_TESTING build under tests/build.  This means you don't have to
reconfigure and rebuild after running the test suite.

This isn't completely straightforward.  If we run a test build in a
separate directory, we are required to run *all* builds in a separate
directory.  So I've set up a default build directory, "./build".  I
cribbed ax_configure_builddir.m4 from the autoconf archive, and heavily
modified it so it actually works.

The macro creates a toplevel Makefile which recurses into the build
directory.  Special handling is provided for "make dist", "make
dist-gzip" and "make dist-bzip2".  For convenience, the tarballs created
in the build directory are moved back into the source directory.
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