How to regenerate configure and Makefile.in?

[Philipp Klaus Krause]

How can I regenerate configure and Makefile.in in the binutils ubdir of
binutils 2.25?
Apparently it wants an autoconf version that is exactly 2.64 and at the
same time 2.65 or higher:

philipp@notebook4:~/binutils-2.25-x/binutils$ autoreconf
configure.ac:22: error: Please use exactly Autoconf 2.64 instead of 2.69.
../config/override.m4:12: _GCC_AUTOCONF_VERSION_CHECK is expanded from...
configure.ac:22: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
philipp@notebook4:~/binutils-2.25-x/binutils$ autoreconf
autoreconf      autoreconf2.64
philipp@notebook4:~/binutils-2.25-x/binutils$ autoreconf2.64
configure.ac:28: error: Autoconf version 2.65 or higher is required
/usr/share/aclocal-1.14/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:28: the top level
autom4te2.64: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 63
autoreconf2.64: aclocal failed with exit status: 63