Thanks Tom. Heikki's suggestion resolved the issue.
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Tom Lane wrote:
> abindra@u.washington.edu writes:
>> I downloaded the latest postgresql code via cvs on a FreeBSD 7.2 system. When I try to run autoconf on the source it
tellsme that I need autoconf-2.63. However the freeBSD ports only has autoconf-6.62.
>
>> Does anyone have any suggestion on how to resolve this? I posted a question on the freebsd ports forum but have not
hadany solutions.
>
> Well, you could grab our nightly tarball instead of pulling from CVS.
> Or you could remove the version-check line from configure.in. The
> latter is actually very likely to work, we just don't promise anything
> (if it breaks, debugging is your problem not ours).
>
> regards, tom lane
>