Re: Unable to build amhello package from scratch on Debian

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Abhinav,

* Abhinav Singh wrote on Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:04:43PM CEST:
> This is my first time with autotools and I tried following:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/automake/Creating-amhello.html#Creating-amhello
> to get started.
> 
> However when I issue the:
> *$bash: autoreconf --install*
> 
> I get the following error:
> configure.ac: 4: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not
> `AC_CONFIG_HEADER'

> configure.ac: 4: required file `./[config.h].in' not found
> Makefile.am:2: invalid variable `dist_doc_DATA'

These three errors look like the Automake version you have installed is
very old.  Look at
  automake --version

to confirm.  The most recent stable version is 1.11.  If you are using
something older than 1.9, please update it before going on; you might
also want to (and have to) update Autoconf, too (latest is 2.64, and you
shouldn't go further than 2.59).

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ralf