Building in zlib directory

[Jeff Sturm]

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Richard Kenner wrote:
>     GCC doesn't yet support the latest autoconf.  I use 2.13.
>
> Well, I picked up the latest one because the older one I had (2.53)
> worked even worse.

I don't think any 2.5x release will work correctly.

> Is there some web page that says what versions of these things should
> be used?  I can never find it when I need it.

Good question.  The libjava/HACKING file has some notes about automake,
but I don't know of any other guidelines.

Jeff