Back off the minimum required automake version to 1.11. There isn't anything in libtiff currently that actually requires 1.12, and changing this allows the package to be built on pre-F18 machines for easier testing. This patch can go away once we no longer care about testing on pre-F18. diff -Naur tiff-4.0.3.orig/Makefile.am tiff-4.0.3/Makefile.am --- tiff-4.0.3.orig/Makefile.am 2012-09-20 09:22:47.000000000 -0400 +++ tiff-4.0.3/Makefile.am 2012-10-30 11:33:30.312823564 -0400 @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ docdir = $(LIBTIFF_DOCDIR) -AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.12 dist-zip foreign +AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.11 dist-zip foreign ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4 docfiles = \ diff -Naur tiff-4.0.3.orig/test/Makefile.am tiff-4.0.3/test/Makefile.am --- tiff-4.0.3.orig/test/Makefile.am 2012-09-20 09:22:28.000000000 -0400 +++ tiff-4.0.3/test/Makefile.am 2012-10-30 11:33:17.109696812 -0400 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ # Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in. -AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.12 color-tests parallel-tests foreign +AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = 1.11 color-tests parallel-tests foreign LIBTIFF = $(top_builddir)/libtiff/libtiff.la