I believe autoconf may need to be updated. I try to compile some apps,
and they most of the time come up with the below error, or something
like it. It may be the ac-wrapper.pl needs some fixing......
This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
This will be deleted before making the distribution
*** Creating acinclude.m4
!!! If you get recursion errors from autoconf, it is advisable to set the
environment variable M4 to something including "--nesting-limit=500"
*** Creating list of subdirectories
*** Creating configure.in
*** Creating aclocal.m4
*** Creating configure
*** Creating config.h template
FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.52 or higher is required for this script
*** Creating Makefile templates
*** Postprocessing Makefile templates
*** Creating date/time stamp
*** Finished
Don't forget to run ./configure
If you haven't done so in a while, run ./configure --help
--Bill