automake/autoconf problem

[Akos Rajna]

hi,

i'm fairly new with automake and i ran into a problem that i have found 
no solution for. so i have a setup where i don't want all the output 
files generated by the compiler and alike in my src directory, instead i 
created a build/unix folder and i have build/unix/config set for 
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR. then i ran ../../configure from here and everything 
works just fine. however when i wanted to add platform specific options 
and used AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM then configure was unable to locate 
anything from the config directory (like install-sh). any suggestions 
how should i solve this problem or is there a good guide that have some 
more complex examples?

thanks,
Akos Rajna