Index: places/configure.ac
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--- places.orig/configure.ac	2014-07-17 21:51:01.276574017 +0000
+++ places/configure.ac	2014-07-17 21:52:07.096575810 +0000
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 AC_ISC_POSIX
 
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.8)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)