I include a printout for the action to use autoreconf-2.59 and autoreconf-2.62 on a freshly unpacked inetutils-1.8.tar.gz. No manipulation on any file after unpacking, not even a touch to get a more recent time stamp. These actions are taking place in OpenBSD 4.6.
Thanks. Why do you need to run autoreconf with a released version of inetutils? In the first case, using autoreconf-2.59, the claim configure.ac:29: error: Autoconf version 2.62 or higher is required [...] $ export AUTOMAKE_VERSION=1.9 configure.ac:29 is regarding automake, and we require automake 1.11. Seems that the error message is totally bollocks. Can you try with a automake 1.11 or later?