All the patches are gone, everything has been reworked substantially and quick checking indicated the issues had been addressed.
I cannot attach a file. Since Bugzilla is asking for a login every page transition whenever in the submission process, the file seems to get lost in the Submit => Loging => attempt to submit process. This is really annoying. Basically, just omit all patches, and the last "cp" in the install section must be changed since install-sh now lives in config/.
Created attachment 30594 [details] spec file for 2.52d
The attach problem was Konqueror. It'd be really nice if Bugzilla got fixed so it was easy to tell whose fault it is. Bleah. Yes, I've submitted a bug. Ignored, as near as I can tell.
Thanks for the spec file. Sorry for the late response. autoconf-2.52d is in rawhide autoconf-2.52-{2,3}.
*** Bug 53653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***