gCvs on AMD64 not picking up correct automake

I'm working on the gtk2 build for gcvs.  Starting with a fresh extract
from cvs, I get this error during autogen:

aclocal: configure.in: 230: macro `AM_PATH_PYTHON' not found in library
aclocal: macro `AM_PATH_PYTHON' required but not defined

I figured out that this is happening because the /usr/bin/aclocal
wrapper is defaulting to version 1.4, which is too old to resolve this
macro.  Here is what the top of that wrapper says:

# - defaults to automake-1.4
# - runs automake-1.8 if it exists and...
#   - envvar WANT_AUTOMAKE is set to `1.8'
#     -or-
#   - `Makefile.in' was generated by automake-1.8 or superior, which
#     specifically needs automake-1.8
#     -or_
#   - 'aclocal.m4' contain AM_AUTOMAKE_VERSION, specifying the use of
1.8

It goes on to say similar things for 1.7, 1.6 and 1.5 (though not
exactly the same for each.)  I'd like to submit a fix for this but don't
really know the correct approach; I temporarily just set
WANT_AUTOMAKE=1.8 and exported it at the top of am_macros/autogen.sh. 
By trial and error, it looks like versions 1.6 and later all work. 
Where is the correct place to specify this minimum required version?

-- 
Guy Rouillier


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