googletest version is not detected properly.
When doing this on Mac OS 10.12.6:
autoreconf -i && ./configure --with-gtest-source=/Users/thomson/devel/gtest-1.8.0
I get the following (note the version is not detected as 1.8.0, but rather as "googletest")
Google Test:
GTEST_VERSION: googletest
GTEST_INCLUDES: -I/Users/thomson/devel/gtest-1.8.0/googletest -I/Users/thomson/devel/gtest-1.8.0/googletest/include
GTEST_LDFLAGS:
GTEST_LDADD: $(top_builddir)/ext/gtest/libgtest.a
GTEST_SOURCE: /Users/thomson/devel/gtest-1.8.0/googletest