I'm having a similar problem on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04: === $ ./bootstrap ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out coreutils sources... ./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files... ./bootstrap: getting translations into po/.reference for coreutils... receiving incremental file list ./
sent 37 bytes received 655 bytes 197.71 bytes/sec total size is 16,363,502 speedup is 23,646.68 ./bootstrap: autopoint --force sh: 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: not found /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:451: cannot open `m4/cu-progs.m4': No such file or directory autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is using autopoint: *** Stop. === $ autoconf --version | head -n1 autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 $ automake --version | head -n1 automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1 $ gettext --version | head -n1 gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.18.3 $ gcc --version | head -n1 gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2 $ m4 --version | head -n1 m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.17 $ git describe --always v8.22-71-g14613e2
