[Axis2] Dealing with different versions of automake/atoconf

[Samisa Abeysinghe]

Hi Anuradha,
   Given your expertise in the GNU make system, do you have any idea if 
we can make our configure.ac work across different versions of 
automake/autoconf?

   Basically the problem is that PHP uses autoconf 2.13 and automake 
1.5 (PHP make system complains if the versions are not 2.13/1.5)
   Ours make use of autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9 (our make system 
fails if versions are not 2.59/1.9)

   Can we write our configure.ac to work in these different version on 
auto tools?

Thanks,
Samisa...