* Now autoconf 2.69 and automake 1.11.5 are used.

* These would have been called incorrectly previously.

* This ensures dependencies on the library are generated.

* This allowed one process to close a file and open the next with the
  same ID, thus beginning writes to the file at large offsets when then
  querying for the shared file pointer.

* With the -c switch the test program can also be used for
  benchmarking.