My 2 cents:
automake does this check because it assumes if you are a developer for the
package and are using it, you should have these tools installed, but if you
are just compiling the end result, you don't need to have these tools
installed. I see this all the time.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Stenberg" <daniel_at_haxx.se>
To: "libcurl Mailing list" <curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: header bytes not being reset on each perform

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote:
>
> > > Actually, curl should build without a single gnu tool present...
> >
> > why does the configure script look for things like autoconf?
>
> Because if it _is_ present, it'll be used. That check is automatically
added
> by 'automake' and I wouldn't keep it if I could remove it easily.
>
> But, it doesn't do much harm.
>
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