[Sheepdog] Building on CentOS 5.5 x86_64

[Yuriy Kohut]

Is it possible to build and run current Sheepdog on CentOS 5.5 x86_64 ?

I got the sources with:
# git clone git://sheepdog.git.sf.net/gitroot/sheepdog/sheepdog

Then try to build configuration system with:
# ./autogen.sh

And got"
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Building configuration system...
configure.ac:19: error: Autoconf version 2.61 or higher is required
configure.ac:19: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 63
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Current CentOS autoconf package version is 2.59. And there is no way to update it.

Is that really critical to use autoconf >= 2.61 for sheepdog ?
Could somebody please assist me with sheepdog building under CentOS 5.5 ?
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Yura