erro with autoconf213

[sam wun]

Hi,

During the process of installing ACE+TAO from the Ports, it installed 
autoconf213 as well. As I read autoconf webpages, the recent new version 
of autoconf is 257, 213 is a way behind the latest version.

Should I use autoconf213 or 257?
I tried to build a c project using autoconf, but stopped with the 
following error:
address@hidden [2:15pm] [...local/test]# aclocal14 && automake14
configure.in: 3: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not 
`AC_CONFIG_HEADER'
automake: configure.in: `PACKAGE' not defined in `configure.in'
automake: configure.in: `VERSION' not defined in `configure.in'
automake: configure.in: required file `./install-sh' not found
automake: configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
automake: configure.in: required file `./missing' not found
automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified

the file structure is shown as follow:
address@hidden [2:15pm] [...local/test]# ls -l
total 10
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel  512 Apr  6 14:14 ./
drwxr-xr-x  21 root  wheel  512 Apr  6 14:04 ../
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   78 Apr  6 14:14 config.h.in
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  364 Apr  6 14:10 configure.in
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Apr  6 14:06 src/
address@hidden [2:21pm] [...local/test]#

I m not sure which version of autoconf I should use.
Any suggestion?

Thanks
Sam