I broke cygport

[Charles Wilson]

I'm currently working on a bunch of release announcements for update 
packages...but first things first:

One of those updates is
    autoconf2.5-2.59 --> autoconf2.5-2.60
(yes, it's weird.  But the received wisdom is that autoconf-2.60 is 
considered a continuation of the 2.5x line of development.)

Anyway, the old autoconf2.5 package contained files like:

/usr/bin/autoconf-2.5x
/usr/bin/autoheader-2.5x
etc

However, that's not the way the linuxii do it. AND, since (in another 
change) I switched the autoconf wrapper from the Red Hat perl script to 
the gentoo bash script -- I felt it better to move closer to the linux 
way.  Therefore, the new autoconf2.5 package contains

/usr/bin/autoconf-2.60
/usr/bin/autoheader-2.60
etc

For most purposes, this is transparent.  You run "autoconf" which is the 
wrapper, and you get "the right" version.  However, cygport explicitly 
tests for the presence of "autoconf-2.5x" in $PATH.

This patch makes cygport's search a little smarter -- and it or 
something like it is *required* if you want cygport to work after the 
new autoconf is installed.

--
Chuck
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