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+2001-09-01  Assar Westerlund  <assar@sics.se>
+
+	* Makefile.am.common (AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS): set 1.4b here so that
+	users are warned if using earlier automake versions
+
 2001-08-30  Assar Westerlund  <assar@sics.se>
 
 	* db.m4: check for ndbm functions in db3 library too