Changes to be able to create source TAR packages with longer

path names than 99 characters, using the USTAR format of the
resulting source TAR.

To be able to specify the use of USTAR when creating the source
TAR, we needed both to update the GNU autotools version requirements
slightly, and update the initiation of the tools to use more
modern constructs.

configure.in

 dnl -*- ksh -*-
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
-AC_PREREQ(2.52)dnl		Minimum Autoconf version required.
+# Minimum Autoconf version required.
+AC_PREREQ(2.59)
 
-AC_INIT(sql/mysqld.cc)
-AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
-# The Docs Makefile.am parses this line!
-# remember to also update version.c in ndb
-#
+# Remember to also update version.c in ndb.
 # When changing major version number please also check switch statement
 # in mysqlbinlog::check_master_version().
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(mysql, 5.1.43)
-AM_CONFIG_HEADER([include/config.h:config.h.in])
+AC_INIT([MySQL Server], [5.1.43], [], [mysql])
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([sql/mysqld.cc])
+AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
+# USTAR format gives us the possibility to store longer path names in
+# TAR files, the path name is split into two parts, a 155 chacater
+# first part and a 100 character second part.
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([1.9 tar-ustar])
+LT_INIT
+LT_PREREQ([1.5.6])
+
+AM_CONFIG_HEADER([include/config.h])
 
 # Request support for automake silent-rules if available.
 # Default to verbose output. One can use the configure-time