Branch to reinstate autogen.sh, with history, to tip.

License text, explanatory messages removed; just
  does "exec autoreconf" for the time being.

autogen.sh

@@ -1,39 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh -x
 
-# The (trivial) script for preparing the sources following the
-# checkout from version control.
-# Copyright (C) 2005, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-# In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation
-# gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget with the
-# OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
-# that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
-# the linked executables.  You must obey the GNU General Public License
-# in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL".  If you
-# modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the
-# file, but you are not obligated to do so.  If you do not wish to do
-# so, delete this exception statement from your version.
-
-# TODO: print an error message nicer than "sh: command not found" when
-# Autoconf is not installed (or, more precisely, not found in the
-# PATH).
-
-autoheader
-autoconf
-
-# At this point we intentionally don't invoke configure and make
-# because we don't know where the user wants to run the configuration,
-# nor with which arguments.  That should be up to the user.
+exec autoreconf