2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index fa59b41..fa68a87 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ You will need reasonably recent versions of the build tools:
     + Homepage:
       https://gcc.gnu.org/
 
-  * GNU automake
+  * GNU automake 1.16.4 or newer
     + Homepage:
       https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/
 
diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 653657c..75b3c9c 100755
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # also regenerates all aclocal.m4, config.h.in, Makefile.in, configure files
 # with new versions of autoconf or automake.
 #
-# This script requires autoconf-2.63..2.71 and automake-1.11..1.16 in the PATH.
+# This script requires autoconf-2.65..2.71 and automake-1.16.4 in the PATH.
 # If not used from a released tarball, it also requires either
 #   - the GNULIB_SRCDIR environment variable pointing to a gnulib checkout, or
 #   - a preceding invocation of './gitsub.sh pull'.