Not sure how far to go back but tested MatN's configure.ac on Ubuntu 16 and Debian 32-bit 9.1 (not old though) with no issues
I could no longer boot Ubuntu 14 to test there.  So probably best to keep updated and if necessary the older O/S will have to adjust instead.
Checked into GIT: configure.ac, bld_prepare.sh, and bld_appimage.sh from Mat's latest improvements.

date, and I should run autoupdate, which I did, and all was fine.
I checked then that updated configure.ac on Mint 19.2 (oldest distro I
have active) and it is fine there too.


to be honest I am not sure if updated configure.ac will work on  system with older autotools? it seems mostly cosmetic issue user can fix manually, and it even works as-is (at least on termux, and it tend to be rolling distro...) 


I took the opportunity to fix another error: The m4 directory was not
used. This is used when "missing" scripts are installed.

So I suggest to update the Cinelerra-gg with this.

MatN
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