Automake 1.7 is too broken to even investigate why it broke at this point.
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
# See LICENSE for licensing information
# "foreign" means we don't follow GNU package layout standards
-# 1.7 means we require automake vesion 1.7
-AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign 1.7 subdir-objects
+# 1.9 means we require automake vesion 1.9
+AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign 1.9 subdir-objects
noinst_LIBRARIES=
EXTRA_DIST=