New install 2.59 - not seeing some m4 stuff?

[Steve Huston]

I built autoconf 2.59 from source on Solaris 9. The configure, make,
and install appeared to go without error. However, when running
autoconf on an existing project, I now get:

configure.ac:1: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:64: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
... (more of these for AC_DEFINE, AC_MSG_WARN, AC_CHECK_FUNC, etc.)

Is there something obvious wrong here that I can check?

Thanks,

-Steve

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Steve Huston, Riverace Corporation
Co-author of "C++ Network Programming" and "The ACE Programmer's
Guide"
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