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Update autoconf/automake description in parts.rst.

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@ -361,3 +361,24 @@ packaging software on computer systems where a Bourne shell is available.
At this stage we still do not have a working autotools system, so we manually install
``autoconf`` script and replace a few placeholder variables with ``sed``.
Version 2.52 is the newest version that runs on ``miniperl``.
automake 1.4-p6
===============
GNU Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files. Together with
Autoconf they from GNU Autotools build system.
``automake`` again needs both ``automake`` and ``autoconf``. In order to bootstrap it
we patch ``configure.in`` file to produce ``automake`` and skip ``Makefile`` effectively
removing dependency on ``automake`` at the cost of having to install ``automake`` manually.
Then we rebuild both ``automake`` using already installed ``autoconf`` and ``automake``.
Version 1.4-p6 is again the newest version that runs on ``miniperl``.
autoconf 2.52
=============
We now properly rebuild ``autoconf`` using ``autoconf`` and ``automake``.