- Removed that evil junk from bootstrap that tried to check

for autotools versions -- it's ugly and hard to do right
  and isn't worth the effort -- from now on I will be
  referring people to the first paragraph in the README

README

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ README for quake2
 Compiling
 ---------
 
-If you are checking this out from CVS, run the bootstrap command first to
-set up configure.  You will need autoconf 2.50, automake 1.6, libtool 1.4,
+If you are checking this out from CVS, run ``./bootstrap'' first to set
+up configure.  You will need autoconf 2.50, automake 1.6, libtool 1.4,
 or greater.  Then follow the instructions in INSTALL.
 
 When specifying locations to arguments like --with-svgalib (i.e. all the
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Installing the game data
 
 The game data is searched for in ./baseq2/ and in 
 ${prefix}/share/quake2/baseq2/ (which by default is 
-/usr/local/share/quake2/baseq2/.  If you get an error that quake2 can't
+/usr/local/share/quake2/baseq2/).  If you get an error that quake2 can't
 find pics/colormap.pcx, it means that it can't find your pak0.pak.  Check
 what prefix you gave to configure, and make sure you have pak0.pak in the
 right directory.

bootstrap

@@ -1,20 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-
 # bootstrap the build when checking out from CVS
 
-# dodgy hack to use gmake if we're on bsd systems
-if [ -x /usr/local/bin/gmake ]; then
-	MAKE=/usr/local/bin/gmake
-else
-	MAKE=make
-fi
-
 if [ "$1" = "clean" ]; then
-	# clean up junk
-	
-	if [ -f Makefile ]; then 
-		$MAKE distclean
-	fi
+    # quick hack to remove extra generated files that make distclean
+    # doesn't remove
     find . -name Makefile.in -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f
     rm -f aclocal.m4 install-sh missing mkinstalldirs \
 	stamp-* tags configure config.* \
@@ -23,19 +12,13 @@ if [ "$1" = "clean" ]; then
     find . -name '*~' -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f
     find . -name '*.rej' -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f
     find . -name '*.orig' -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f
-
-else
-
-    VERSION=`automake --version |head -1| sed 's/automake (GNU automake) //'`
-    MAJOR=`echo $VERSION | cut -f1 -d.`
-    MINOR=`echo $VERSION | cut -f2 -d.`
-    if test "$MAJOR" -ge "1" -a "$MINOR" -ge "6"; then
-	aclocal
-	autoheader
-	libtoolize --copy --ltdl --automake
-	automake --foreign --add-missing --copy
-	autoconf
-    else
-	echo "Need automake version 1.6 or higher"
-    fi
+    exit
 fi
+
+# no version checking is done here, it's too hard and not worth the effort
+# when one can just read the README
+aclocal && \
+autoheader && \
+libtoolize --copy --ltdl --automake && \
+automake --foreign --add-missing --copy && \
+autoconf