I am trying to build KDE on a Debian GNU/Linux testing system (build from cvs head). I keep running into problems that I think are related the versions of the auto* tools I'm using.
Do I need particular versions of autoconf to work with particular versions of automake, for example? How do I find which ones are consistent? And how can I figure out what is going on with errors like the following, while trying to build kdelibs: make -k -f Makefile.cvs This Makefile is only for the CVS repository *** Creating acinclude.m4 *** Creating list of subdirectories *** Creating configure.in *** Creating aclocal.m4 *** Creating configure configure.in:105: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_MKDTEMP If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. Some version info autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.57 automake (GNU automake) 1.7.5 gcc.real (GCC) 3.3 (Debian) autotools-dev 20030519.1 (provides config.guess and config.sub) I had some lower version number tools installed earlier, and managed to get past some problems by removing them. I believe I only have one each of autconf and automake now, though several flavors of gcc are on the system. Some of the KDE scripts explicitly search for particular versions of the tools. Thanks.