thanks, i'm giving a look at it right now, but it seems that there is no automake1.5 in debian right now, apt-cache jumps from 1.4 to 1.6.
Install it by hand in a different prefix.
just did that, automake-1.5 from gnu + the patch, works perfectly.
Henrik: thanks for the quick answer
/olivier (still wondering why automake1.5 isn't in debian)
