[Panel-devel] cannot compile KDE4 - automake problem

[Paul Drummond]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to compile KDE4 using the instructions posted not so long ago:

http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/panel-devel/2005-July/000354.html

but I cannot compile kdelibs.  The command "unsermake -f Makefile.cvs" fails 
as follows:

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/home/kdev/src/kde/unsermake/unsermake -f admin/Makefile.common cvs
*** YOU'RE USING UNSERMAKE 0.4.
*** Creating acinclude.m4
*** Creating list of subdirectories
*** Creating Makefile.am
*** Creating configure.files
*** Creating configure.in
*** Creating aclocal.m4
*** Creating configure
configure:33291: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CPPFLAGS
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
Error creating cvs. Exit status 1.
Error creating all. Exit status 1.
kdev at fred:~/src/kde/kdelibs$
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The author of the instructions states he had the same problem and fixed it by 
updating automake.  I too am using Ubuntu (which I changed to kubuntu) and 
have used synaptic to install later versions of automake (1.6 to 1.9) but none 
of these fix the problem.

Can anyone help?