automake failing nearly all tests

[Michael Muratet US-Huntsville]

Greetings

 

I got an error during the building of an application that automake was
out of date. Fair enough. After building, digging, and rebuilding I
ultimately went the process:

 

Build m4 v 1.4.10 and it passes all the checks

Build autoconf  v2.6.1 and it passes all the checks

Build libtool v1.5.24 and it passes all the checks (although automake
putatively does not depend on libtool)

Build automake v1.10, and all hell breaks loose.

 

address@hidden automake-1.10]# make VERBOSE=t check 

++ pwd

+ cat

+ cat

+ :

+ :

+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror

configure.in:2: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required

/usr/local/automake-1.10/m4/init.m4:26: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded
from...

configure.in:2: the top level

autom4te-2.5x: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63

aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63

+ set -e

+ cp configure.in X

+ echo 'AC_LIBSOURCE(maude.c)'

+ automake-1.10 --foreign -Werror -Wall

configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.

configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,

configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,

configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using
aclocal).

/usr/local/automake-1.10/lib/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not
appear in AM_CONDITIONAL

/usr/local/automake-1.10/lib/am/depend2.am:   The usual way to define
`am__fastdepCC' is to add `AC_PROG_CC'

/usr/local/automake-1.10/lib/am/depend2.am:   to `configure.in' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.

/usr/local/automake-1.10/lib/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in
AM_CONDITIONAL

/usr/local/automake-1.10/lib/am/depend2.am:   The usual way to define
`AMDEP' is to add one of the compiler tests

/usr/local/automake-1.10/lib/am/depend2.am:     AC_PROG_CC, AC_PROG_CXX,
AC_PROG_CXX, AC_PROG_OBJC,

/usr/local/automake-1.10/lib/am/depend2.am:     AM_PROG_AS, AM_PROG_GCJ,
AM_PROG_UPC

/usr/local/automake-1.10/lib/am/depend2.am:   to `configure.in' and run
`aclocal' and `autoconf' again.

++ pwd

+ set -e

+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror --output=fred

configure.in:2: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required

/usr/local/automake-1.10/m4/init.m4:26: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded
from...

configure.in:2: the top level

autom4te-2.5x: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63

aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63

++ pwd

+ echo GNOME_X_CHECKS

+ mkdir macros

+ cat

+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror -I macros

+ cat stderr

+ grep 'macros/gnome.m4:2:.*AM_PATH_GTK.*not found' stderr

++ pwd

+ set -e

+ cat

+ mkdir m4

+ cat

+ mkdir lib

+ :

+ :

+ cat

+ cat

+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror -I m4

configure.in:2: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required

/usr/local/automake-1.10/m4/init.m4:26: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded
from...

configure.in:2: the top level

autom4te-2.5x: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63

aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63

++ pwd

+ set -e

+ cat

+ cat

+ mkdir sub

+ :

+ mkdir m4

+ echo 'AC_DEFUN([AM_TEST], [echo address@hidden)'

+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror -I m4

configure.in:2: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required

/usr/local/automake-1.10/m4/init.m4:26: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded
from...

configure.in:2: the top level

autom4te-2.5x: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63

aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63

++ pwd

+ set -e

+ cat

+ cat

+ mkdir sub

+ :

+ mkdir m4

+ echo 'AC_DEFUN([SOME_DEFS], [])'

+ echo 'AC_DEFUN([MORE_DEFS], [AC_SUBST([GREPME])])'

+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror -I m4

configure.in:2: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required

/usr/local/automake-1.10/m4/init.m4:26: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded
from...

configure.in:2: the top level

autom4te-2.5x: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63

aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63

++ pwd

+ set -e

+ cat

+ mkdir sub

+ :

+ cat

+ :

+ mkdir m4

+ echo 'AC_DEFUN([SOME_DEFS], [])'

+ sleep 2

+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror -I m4

configure.in:2: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required

/usr/local/automake-1.10/m4/init.m4:26: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded
from...

configure.in:2: the top level

autom4te-2.5x: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63

aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63

++ pwd

+ set -e

+ cat

+ mkdir m4

+ cat

+ echo 'AC_DEFUN([MACRO1],)'

+ echo 'AC_DEFUN([MACRO2], [AC_REQUIRE([AM_UNUSED_MACRO])])'

+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror -I m4

++ pwd

+ set -e

+ cat

+ mkdir m4_1 m4_2

+ cat

+ cat

+ aclocal-1.10 -Werror -I m4_1 -I m4_2

configure.in:2: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required

/usr/local/automake-1.10/m4/init.m4:26: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded
from...

configure.in:2: the top level

autom4te-2.5x: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63

aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 63

 

It goes on and on with the exit 63 status at each test.

 

I believe I have gone through the build process in the correct manner.
There's got to be something simple I've missed. I've found lots of docs
on the individual tools, but little on building the suite.

 

Can anyone help me out here?

 

Thanks

 

Mike