building 1.5.12 on RHEL

[William Yardley <mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm getting an error building 1.5.12 on RHEL 3 U 8... Autoconf v2.57. 

configure.in has:

AC_PREREQ([2.54])

But I get:
$ make
cd . && /bin/sh /home/william/mutt-1.5.12/missing --run autoheader
configure.in:11: error: Autoconf version 2.58 or higher is required
aclocal.m4:446: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.in:11: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1

I built it fine on OpenBSD with Autoconf v 2.57

Any suggestions?

w