autoconf creating empty configure in top directory

[Diego Novillo]

On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Diego Novillo wrote:

> In merging mainline into tree-ssa, I needed to run autogen and
> autoconf in the toplevel directory because we have changes in
> Makefile.def.
> 
Hmm, We are not supposed to run autoconf in the toplevel
directory, right?

*blush*