Autoconf, automake and the trunk.

[Aidan Kehoe]

The autotools tutorials online say that, to generate configure and so on,
one should run:

$ aclocal && autoconf && automake -a 

The last step of that fails for me with:

automake19: no `Makefile.am’ found for any configure output

How do I get around this? My automake is v. 1.9.6, my autoconf is 2.61
though I also have 2.59 available.

(This is relevant to the recent XFT library spelling fix, and another patch
of mine locally.)

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