Github user bachp commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/318#issuecomment-67340902
@jfarrell Regarding the referencing of autoconf I think the only place we
do that is to get the version number. This was just done to avoid having to
change the number in yet another place.
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