Bug#178257: [krbdev.mit.edu #1242] Autoconf2.13 package does not support -I to autoreconf

[Sam Hartman via RT]

package: autoconf2.13

Hi.  I'm one of the developers for MIT Kerberos and I was trying to
build Kerberos on Debian 3.0.

I ran into the problem that the autoconf script in the autoconf2.13
package does not understand the -I option to include a directory
containing additional macros.  This is somewhat understandable because
the old 2.13 version of autoconf only has --localdir, not -I.

But it seems that when calling autoconf 2.50, the Debian script should
support  all the autoconf 2.50 options.


I could work around this, except that autoreconf2.50 will convert
--localdir into -I and then call an unqualified autoconf instead of
calling autoconf2.50.

So, I think there is no way I can use --localdir with an autoconf 2.50
project and have autoreconf work for that project.