Description of problem:
atk has a build requirement to the too old aclocal/automake 1.4,
because:

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robert@tux:~ > grep aclocal\ 1.7 atk-1.7.3/aclocal.*
# generated automatically by aclocal 1.7.2 -*- Autoconf -*-
robert@tux:~ > 
robert@tux:~ > grep AC_PREREQ atk-1.7.3/configure.*
AC_PREREQ(2.54)
robert@tux:~ > 
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aclocal/automake >= 1.6 is required - when it is used, because at 
current for the latest rebuild no auto* is needed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
atk-1.7.3-1

Actual results:
To avoid problems in the future, I would suggest the following 
changes - working for me fine:

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--- atk.spec       2004-07-30 17:21:16.000000000 +0200
+++ atk.spec.rsc   2004-07-31 16:45:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -11,9 +11,7 @@
 URL: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/atk-%{PACKAGE_VERSION}-root
 BuildPreReq: glib2-devel >= %{glib2_version}
-BuildPreReq: libtool
-BuildPreReq: /usr/bin/autoconf
-BuildPreReq: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.4
+BuildPreReq: libtool, autoconf >= 2.54, automake >= 1.6

 %description
 The ATK library provides a set of interfaces for adding accessibility
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Expected results:
Use of the patch ;)