You might also want to enable silent build:
  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/NicerBuilds

Created attachment 140752 [details] [review]
[PATCH] build: check for automake-1.11

 autogen.sh |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Created attachment 140887 [details]
Proposing a more generic approach

I don't know what is the benefit of hardcoding any automake version in autogen.sh, but if backward compatibility is an issue the generic check can be moved at the end of the elif sequence.

Thanks for the patch. I'll apply this after my vaccation.

commit 14eec0968f7b9704b8ee13d3593d20019caf27fe
Author: Nicola Fontana <ntd@entidi.it>
Date:   Thu Nov 26 00:26:03 2009 +0200

    autogen.sh: handle generic automake version
    
    Before checking for specific automake and aclocal versions, try the
    default one.