diff --git a/stepmania/Makefile.am b/stepmania/Makefile.am
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+# Need 1.7 for subdir support.  (Well, 1.4 doesn't work, I don't know if anything between does.)
+AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.7 foreign
+SUBDIRS = src
+ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I autoconf/m4
+
diff --git a/stepmania/autogen.sh b/stepmania/autogen.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+# $Id$
+# Run this to generate configure, the initial makefiles, etc.
+#
+# Source (non-CVS) distributions should come with a "configure" script
+# already generated--people simply compiling the program shouldn't
+# need autoconf and friends installed.
+#
+# CVS only contains the source files: Makefile.am, configure.ac, and
+# so on.
+
+srcdir=`dirname $0`
+test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=.
+
+PKG_NAME="stepmania"
+
+# Actually, there's a chance we'll work with later versions, too, but it's
+# not worth bending over backward to try to detect it right now.
+ACLOCAL=aclocal-1.7
+AUTOMAKE=automake-1.7
+ACLOCAL_OPTIONS="-I autoconf/m4/"
+AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS=-a
+
+AUTOCONF=autoconf
+
+(test -f $srcdir/configure.ac \
+  && test -d $srcdir/src) || {
+    echo -n "**Error**: Directory \"$srcdir\" does not look like the"
+    echo " top-level $PKG_NAME directory"
+
+    exit 1
+}
+
+DIE=0
+
+($AUTOCONF --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
+  echo
+  echo "**Error**: You must have \`autoconf' installed to compile $PKG_NAME."
+  echo "Download the appropriate package for your distribution,"
+  echo "or get the source tarball at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf/"
+  DIE=1
+}
+
+($AUTOMAKE --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
+  echo
+  echo "**Error**: You must have \`automake' installed to compile $PKG_NAME."
+  echo "Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.2.tar.gz"
+  echo "(or a newer version if it is available)"
+  DIE=1
+  NO_AUTOMAKE=yes
+}
+
+
+# if no automake, don't bother testing for aclocal
+test -n "$NO_AUTOMAKE" || ($ACLOCAL --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
+  echo
+  echo "**Error**: Missing \`aclocal'.  The version of \`automake'"
+  echo "installed doesn't appear recent enough."
+  echo "Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.2.tar.gz"
+  echo "(or a newer version if it is available)"
+  DIE=1
+}
+
+if test "$DIE" -eq 1; then
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+$ACLOCAL $ACLOCAL_OPTIONS
+$AUTOCONF
+$AUTOMAKE $AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS
+
+#make -f Makefile.am srcdir=. acinclude.m4
+
+#if test -z "$*"; then
+#  echo "**Warning**: I am going to run \`configure' with no arguments."
+#  echo "If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the"
+#  echo \`$0\'" command line."
+#  echo
+#fi
+
diff --git a/stepmania/configure.ac b/stepmania/configure.ac
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+# only tested with autoconf 2.57
+AC_PREREQ(2.53)
+AC_INIT(src/StepMania.cpp)
+AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(autoconf)
+AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
+
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(StepMania, 3.001)
+AM_CONFIG_HEADER(src/config.h)
+
+MDL_HAVE_OPENGL
+
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(IMG_Load, [SDL_image], have_SDL_image=yes,  have_SDL_image=no)
+# Since we link statically against SDL_sound, we need to link all
+# of its support libraries ourself.
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(vorbis_comment_add, [vorbis], have_vorbis=yes,  have_vorbis=no)
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(ogg_stream_init, [ogg], have_ogg=yes,  have_ogg=no)
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(ov_open, [vorbisfile], have_vorbisfile=yes,  have_vorbisfile=no)
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(mad_synth_init, [mad], have_mad=yes,  have_mad=no)
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(id3_tag_parse, [id3tag], have_mad=yes,  have_mad=no)
+AC_SEARCH_LIBS(deflate, [z], have_libz=yes,  have_libz=no)
+
+AC_PROG_CC
+AC_PROG_CXX
+
+AM_PATH_SDL
+
+# sdl-config puts -L/usr/lib in the library search path, which reorders things
+# in a way that breaks some configurations.
+SDL_LIBS="`echo $SDL_LIBS | sed 's_-L/usr/lib/\?[[ $]]__'`"
+
+AC_OUTPUT([Makefile src/Makefile])
+