Help With Autoconf In Debian

[Sir_Siddy]

Im trying to compile a program and I needed to run autoconf on a configure.ac file. When I ran the program, I received this error

linuxrig:/home/sid/svn/libtorrent# autoconf
configure.ac:17: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
	  If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
	  See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:18: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
configure.ac:19: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_STATIC
configure.ac:21: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_DISABLE_STATIC
configure.ac:22: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[iccaros]

did you install M4? http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/m4.html

and if so then what program are you trying to build?

[Sir_Siddy]

I am trying to build libtorrent and rtorrent with a patch so that DHT can be used.

I used aptitude to install autoconf so wouldnt M4 have been installed with it if it was necessary?

edit:

Well i downloaded the lastest version of m4 through cvs, but it needs autoconf to get the configure file.

so...that sorta leaves me stuck lol.

edit again:

How can I check if M4 is already installed or not? I think it may be.

Edited September 29, 2007 by Sir_Siddy

[hitest]

How can I check if M4 is already installed or not? I think it may be.

If you know the name of the application you could try this command at a terminal prompt.

whereis applicationname

[Sir_Siddy]

Yeah, I have m4 installed

How do you configure autoconf?

Edited September 29, 2007 by Sir_Siddy

[jcl]

Did you do whole

$ aclocal -I m4
$ autoheader
$ libtoolize --copy --force
$ automake --add-missing --copy --gnu
$ autoconf

sequence?