autoconf errors

[gdm85]

By running autoconf I get:

configure.in:3: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.in:10: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
configure.in:51: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.in:63: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT

This is a known issue as one can figure out by googling around. The configure script is anyway generated but not usable:

./configure: line 2215: syntax error near unexpected token `config.h'
./configure: line 2215: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'

[Happy-Ferret]

Any reason you're using autoconf separately, over the autogen.sh provided with the project?

[gdm85]

Sorry, this is bogus. For some reason I hadn't found autogen.sh.

[Happy-Ferret]

I figured.
It's relatively new to me, as well. Really great tool though. Don't know why there are still autotools projects without it. 😻