Newlib autotools updated

[Steve Ellcey]

> This is to inform everyone that the autotools experimental branch stuff 
> has been checked into the repository.  Thanks to everyone who helped 
> test it out.
> 
> -- Jeff J.

Jeff, thanks a lot to you for doing this.  Is libgloss part of the
newlib project too?  I was looking at the latest sources and I see that
all the newlib configure scripts were generated by autoconf 2.59 but the
libgloss configure scripts were generated by 2.13.

Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com