--- /dev/null
+diff -Nuard gnome-common-2.3.0.orig/macros2/autogen.sh gnome-common-2.3.0/macros2/autogen.sh
+--- gnome-common-2.3.0.orig/macros2/autogen.sh 2003-07-10 12:13:56.000000000 +0200
++++ gnome-common-2.3.0/macros2/autogen.sh 2003-09-16 23:45:24.000000000 +0200
+@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
+
+ # default version requirements ...
+ REQUIRED_AUTOCONF_VERSION=${REQUIRED_AUTOCONF_VERSION:-2.53}
+-REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION=${REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION:-1.4}
++REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION=${REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION:-1.7}
+ REQUIRED_LIBTOOL_VERSION=${REQUIRED_LIBTOOL_VERSION:-1.4.3}
+ REQUIRED_GETTEXT_VERSION=${REQUIRED_GETTEXT_VERSION:-0.10.40}
+ REQUIRED_GLIB_GETTEXT_VERSION=${REQUIRED_GLIB_GETTEXT_VERSION:-2.2.0}