mgetty should use autoconf and automake

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> Feel free to send some Autoconf stuff to start with.   

I am working on implementing autoconf and automake for mgetty.  I am
almost finished. I will shortly upload a distribution (later this
day), that can be tried out. I hope that you will accept it. As an
maintainer you should install autoconf-2.12 and automake-1.3 and GNU
m4-1.4.

Some reasons way autoconf and automake should be implemented:

The goal of Automake is to remove the burden of Makefile
maintenance from the back of the individual GNU maintainer (and put it
on the back of the Automake maintainer).

Distributions created by Automake are fully GNU standards-compliant.

There will in the future be support for automatically recoding a
distribution.  The intent is to allow a maintainer to use whatever
character set is most convenient locally, but for all distributions to
be Unicode or ISO 10646 with the UTF-8 encoding.

Some time in the future there will be support for automatically
generating packages (eg Debian packages, RPM packages, Solaris
packages, etc).

The configuration scripts produced by Autoconf require no manual user
intervention when run; which is convenient when configuring large
source trees.

Sverre