[BRLTTY] Building with Autoconf 2.62

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Stepan Kasal on 2008/09/10 at 18:34 +0200]

>Unfortunately, Autoconf version 2.62 does not support this.  

Do you know which precise release introduces the change?

Is it sufficient to check if AS_HELP_STRING is defined in order to know if the 
newer or the older method should be used?

>Is this acceptable for you?  If yes, just use the patch.
>If not, the patch has to be extended so that it uses the right form
>according to the version of Autoconf.

Would it be possible for you to write the extended patch so that it'll work 
both ways? I'd give it a try except that I don't have the newer autoconf here 
(yet) for testing.

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