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Hi

I am porting a new program which requires autoconf258 or greater. I have 
looked into <bsd.port.mk> and found that the devel autoconf version is 
set to 257. I think we need to remove the 257 "barrier".

Could somebody please look into that?

Thanks
Kevin Leung