gnome-common CVS can't find automake

[kevlinux <kevlinux gmail com>]

I've been trying for a few days now to compile the latest PAN CVS
commits.  I get the following, and it was suggested to try this list.

First, proof automake is there:

bash-2.05b$ which automake
/usr/bin/automake

bash-2.05b$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.8.4
Written by Tom Tromey <tromey redhat com>

Now, the attempt at autogen.sh:

bash-2.05b$ ./autogen.sh
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
  testing autoconf... found 2.59
checking for automake >= 1.4...
  testing automake-1.4... not found.
***Error***: You must have automake >= 1.4 installed
  to build Pan.  Download the appropriate package for
  from your distribution or get the source tarball at
    http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.4.tar.gz

I've updated PAN CVS, and gnome-common CVS and still get the same
errors.  Any ideas?

Distro: LFS
Kernel: 2.6.9