Index: configure.ac
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--- configure.ac
+++ configure.ac
@@ -35,10 +35,12 @@
 
 dnl If your program uses plugins and should run on win32 as well, you need to
 dnl uncomment the following line
 dnl BUILDSYS_PROG_IMPLIB
 
+dnl We need this in order to run some initialization needed by the buildsys
+BUILDSYS_INIT
 dnl You need to call this to generate the .deps files required by the buildsys.
 BUILDSYS_TOUCH_DEPS
 
 dnl Set the name of your package here. It will be used in the default include
 dnl paths for example. (Can be changed, see buildsys.mk.in for details.)