[issue43617] Missing definition in configure.ac causing autoreconf to create damaged configure script

[Cong Ma]

Cong Ma <m.cong at protonmail.ch> added the comment:

> The extra macros are provided by optional packages. On Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu the package is called autoconf-archive.

Thank you very much. This (and the patch) is clearing things up for me a lot. At first I thought I was supposed to copy the m4 files over from the autoconf archive into the m4 directory under the repo.

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