diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 990b4922a4..bf241bd4f4 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-12-04	Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
+
+	* bootstrap: Allow autoconf-2.57.
+
 2002-12-01	Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
 
 	* aclocal/prog-cc.m4: Remove GCCSED.
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index 66c0a5c8a5..b8e2138650 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 # to be run from the toplevel directory of RTEMS'
 # source tree
 
-AUTOCONF_VERS=2\.5[23456]
-AUTOMAKE_VERS=1\.[76]
+AUTOCONF_VERS=2\.5[234567]
+AUTOMAKE_VERS=1\.[67]
 
 progname=`basename $0`
 top_srcdir=`dirname $0`