Thank you everyone who replied but I fixed it. Mandrake had autoconf 2.15 or something similar installed. Automake recognized autoconf 2.15 (which is not compatible -- it must be 2.54 or better) and not 2.57. So, removing 2.15 fixed everything.
Thanks again, Dan Anderson On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 07:52, Simon Richter wrote: > Dan, > > > configure: error: Autoconf 2.54 or better is required. > > Is it installed? Is it in your PATH? (try running `autoconf > > --version') > > Is it working? See also config.log for error messages before this > > one. > > Have you looked at the config.log? Most likely, autoconf itself is > there, but autom4te doesn't work. 'autoconf --version' does not test for > that, so the message is not too helpful. > > Simon