How to use alternative autoconf than what is located in /usr/local/bin (for automake compile)?

[Graham Reitz]

Is their a configure switch to indicate that an alternative autoconf should be 
used, rather than defaulting to the autoconf located in /usr/local/bin?

With other gnu build deps there is often a --with-*dep=$path_to_dep.   Is there 
an equivalent when building automake from source?

Host platform: OS X 10.6.7

configure command-line:

./../gnu/automake/automake-1.11/configure --prefix=$HOME/Devel
opment/root/usr/local --with-autoconf=$HOME/Development/root/usr/local/bin

configure output:

checking whether autoconf is installed... yes
checking whether autoconf works... yes
checking whether autoconf is recent enough... no
configure: error: Autoconf 2.61a-341 or better is required.


graham