--- glibc-2.17/aclocal.m4~	2012-12-25 04:02:13.000000000 +0100
+++ glibc-2.17/aclocal.m4	2012-12-25 12:11:19.271094384 +0100
@@ -2,11 +2,6 @@
 dnl the internal functions defined and used by the main configure script
 dnl match those expected by the fragments.
 m4_define([GLIBC_AUTOCONF_VERSION], [2.69])
-m4_if(m4_defn([AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION]), GLIBC_AUTOCONF_VERSION, [],
-      [m4_fatal(m4_flatten(
-Exactly version GLIBC_AUTOCONF_VERSION of Autoconf is required but you have
-m4_defn([AC_AUTOCONF_VERSION])
-), [63])])dnl
 dnl
 dnl We define the macro GLIBC_PROVIDES to do an AC_PROVIDE for each macro
 dnl which appears in configure.in before the sysdep configure scripts are run.