r13225 - gnucash/trunk - rework the initialization to require autoconf-2.59 and automake-1.9

[Derek Atkins]

Author: warlord
Date: 2006-02-11 18:24:01 -0500 (Sat, 11 Feb 2006)
New Revision: 13225
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/13225

Modified:
   gnucash/trunk/ChangeLog
   gnucash/trunk/configure.in
Log:
rework the initialization to require autoconf-2.59 and automake-1.9
parse the version out of the AC_PACKAGE_VERSION macro, so
we still only need to set it in one place.  This should
solve a number of old-automake related problems people have seen.