check for stale configure much earlier

[Darren Tucker]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 at 08:00, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2022, Darren Tucker wrote:
> > +             AC_MSG_WARN([$i newer than configure, running autoreconf])
> > +             (cd $srcdir && autoreconf) || AC_MSG_ERROR([autoreconf failed])
>
> I’d rather have it error out here, possibly with a command line flag
> to override this. Running autoreconf without the right AUTOCONF_VERSION
> and AUTOMAKE_VERSION set is going to be trouble in ports, for example.

Well it would have been more convenient for me, but point taken.  I've
committed it without the part where it runs "autoreconf".

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