Auto-generation problems

[rms39 columbia edu (Russell Steinthal)]

I've been trying to get autoconf/automake to work for libmailcheck 
(so I can get it in CVS), but am having some persistent problems.  
While I know it's not exactly a GNOME programming problem, I'm hoping 
someone can give me a hand.  (Thanks to Martijn van Beers, BTW, who 
already took a stab at helping me through private mail...)  (And at 
least some of the errors seem to be related to GNOME macro stuff.)

I've stolen the macros/ and intl/ directories from another GNOME app 
I checked out of CVS (I think it was control-center), since I 
understand those are added automatically in CVS.   I've setup a 
configure.in and Makefile.am's in each of the subdirectories, and I 
*think* those are in order.

Anyway, here's the output of autogen.sh:

[steintr@condor mailcheck]$ ./autogen.sh
**Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments.
If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
`./autogen.sh' command line.

processing .
Running libtoolize...
Running aclocal  -I macros ...
Running autoheader...
/usr/bin/autoheader: Symbol `HAVE_LIBSM' is not covered by 
/usr/share/autoconf/acconfig.h
Running automake --gnu  ...
server/Makefile.am:22: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
server/Makefile.am:22: variable `ORB_LIBS' not defined
Running autoconf ...
processing ./t
Running libtoolize...
Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `..'.
Running aclocal  -I macros ...
Running autoheader...
/usr/bin/autoheader: Symbol `HAVE_LIBSM' is not covered by 
/usr/share/autoconf/acconfig.h
Running automake --gnu  ...
automake: lib/Makefile.am: not supported: source file 
`../common/GnomeMailbox.c' is in subdirectory
automake: lib/Makefile.am: not supported: source file 
`../common/GnomeMailbox.h' is in subdirectory
automake: lib/Makefile.am: not supported: source file 
`../common/sequence.c' is in subdirectory
server/Makefile.am:32: variable `INTLLIBS' not defined
server/Makefile.am:32: variable `ORB_LIBS' not defined
Running autoconf ...
Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-compile-warnings
 ...
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... found
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... found
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
./configure: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
./configure: ./configure: line 801: `;'
[steintr@condor mailcheck]$ 

Line 801 of configure, where it bombs out, is a stray semicolon in 
column 0; editing it out lets configure run successfully.  The 
Makefile which is produced, however, dies with a "Makefile:288: *** 
missing separator. Stop." error on make all.

I have a feeling I'm running the wrong version of something, but I've 
installed the most up-to-date versions I can find: autoconf 2.13, 
automake 1.4, GNU Make 3.76.1.

Any help would be appreciated, and my apologies again for the long 
message.

-Russell

-- 
Russell Steinthal
<rms39@columbia.edu>		Columbia College Class of 1999
<steintr@avnet.org>		System Administrator, AV-Network