Thanks folks, it appears that it doesn't work to install autoconf and related tools in a non-standard directory and have it override older versions. If I run autogen.sh on another system and copy the resulting files over, configure now works.
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Thanks folks, it appears that it doesn't work to install autoconf and related tools in a non-standard directory and have it override older versions. If I run autogen.sh on another system and copy the resulting files over, configure now works.
mark