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 2018-10-11  Jay Berkenbilt  <ejb@ql.org>
 
+	* Files generated by autogen.sh are now committed so that it is
+	possible to build on platforms without autoconf directly from a
+	clean checkout of the repository. The configure script detects if
+	the files are out of date when it also determines that the tools
+	are present to regenerate them.
+
 	* Add build in Azure Pipelines, now that it is free for open
 	source projects.