[BRLTTY] brltty configure script requires subversion

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by William Hubbs on 2011/03/31 at 13:35 -0500]

>I don't really know the purpose of the "revision" script, so I am asking
>here why we have it, and if there is a way a patch could be written for
>it so that it doesn't require the presence of subversion?

The purpose is to get brltty's build revision number. Looking at it, it may be 
better to move this from configure to autogen. Would that be okay?

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