Do not use test -a/-o.  Use shell features like &&, || or case...esac.
Use grep instead of egrep (but not the not-yet-portable Posix variant grep -E).
Based on a patch from Paul Eggert.

update misc notices

Trim this.

Improve regex to allow detection of : inside of filenames.
Skip files with ':' in name
Fix noslash 'next' vs 'continue' bug

macros.  Proceedures for using alternative dependency generation
"compiler" and "flags" has changed.
    Pre-configure:
        env MKDEP=mycc MKDEP_FLAGS=myccflags ./configure
    Post-configure:
        hack top.mk and run ./config.status

  make depend, make tests, and make install all work when build directory
  is not the $srcdir.
Also modified library handling such that -lpthread more likely to be last.
WARNING: new orderring requires use of LDFLAGS to set global loader options
  such as -L/usr/local/lib.  If you put this in LIBS, some libraries
  may not be found a link time.
Likely broke Kerberos/LDAPD support.  Don't have those in my testbed.

actually use -c option.

  Updated to use libtool 1.2 (with FreeBSD3.0 a.out v. elf detection).
  Updated autoconf to 1.12 with sed patch (don't use stock 1.12).
  aclocal.m4 is built using automake's aclocal, v1.3.
  Updated mkdep to support libtool .lo files.
Updated automake provided macros for TERMIOS, STRTOD, MKTIME, PTRDIFF_T
Autoconf now checks to ensure C compiler supports ANSI C prototypes.
Updated make files templates.