configure.in adapted to automake; announce in NEWS. README.checkout adjustment.

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@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ To reduce bandwidth and needless updates, the Subversion tree does not
 contain automatically-generated files, even when those files are
 normally present in the distribution tarballs.
 
-Therefore, if you're building from the sources obtained via
-Subversion, you'll need to have at least GNU Autoconf (2.59 or newer)
-installed on your system.  To generate the Info documentation, you
-will need the GNU Texinfo package. Those packages are available from
-<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/<package>/> and its mirrors, listed at
-<http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>.
+Therefore, if you're building from the sources obtained via Subversion,
+you'll need to have at least GNU Autoconf (2.61 or newer) and GNU
+Automake (1.10 or newer) installed on your system.  To generate the Info
+documentation, you will need the GNU Texinfo package. Those packages are
+available from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/<package>/> and its mirrors,
+listed at <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>.
 
-In case you aren't used to running autoconf manually to generate the
+In case you aren't used to running autotools manually to generate the
 necessary configure script, a script called autogen.sh has been
 provided, and may be invoked using `./autogen.sh'.  Once the script
 has completed, the configure script will reside in the current