./configuring automake can't find autoconf

[Dan Anderson]

I just installed Autoconf 2.57, but when I try to ./configure automake
1.7.5 all I get is:

configure: error: Autoconf 2.54 or better is required.
  Is it installed?  Is it in your PATH?  (try running `autoconf
--version')
  Is it working?  See also config.log for error messages before this
one.


This is very weird because autoconf --version works, and I can run
autoconf without a full pathname, i.e. autoconf --help brings up the
help screen.

I am running Mandrake 9.1 on an AMD Athalon.  Anybody know how I might
be able to fix it?

Thanks in Advance,

Dan Anderson