AC_INIT(atlc, 4.2.12, address@hidden)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
See the description of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in the manual.
(The form you've been using dates from a time when AC_INIT did
*not* accept package-name and version arguments.
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE still accepts those values for backward
compatibility, but providing them in AC_INIT instead is now
preferred.)
- see below, despite the fact I have run 'aclocal',
which is from automake 1.7 and not an old version of automake I have
lying around as the error message suggests.
Although your "aclocal" program is from 1.7, it's possibly
reading the data files from an older version of Automake. If you
change your configure.ac as I've suggested, and get complaints
about missing arguments to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE (or other weird
errors suggesting that Automake doesn't know the package's name
or version), I'd raise that from "possible" to "almost certain" :-)