hi all, i recently upgraded from fedora core 1 to core 2, and decided to do a complete upgrade (wipes the system clean and reinstalls from scratch)..

i have installed absolutely everything on the disks, although when compiling from source I am having problems!

my process is to run

./configure
make

in fedora core 1 I rarely had any problems, although now the make command is failing. i am getting this output:

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cd .. && make am--refresh
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/niko/arson'
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/niko/arson'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/niko/arson/doc'
cd .. && \
/bin/sh /home/niko/arson/admin/missing --run automake --gnu doc/Makefile
configure.in:44: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst
aclocal.m4:10697: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...
configure.in:44: the top level
configure.in:139: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
aclocal.m4:10710: _AM_DIRNAME is expanded from...
configure.in:139: the top level
configure.in:39: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
configure.in:39: old Automake version. You should recreate aclocal.m4
configure.in:39: with aclocal and run automake again.
WARNING: `automake' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.in'.
You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
Grab them from any GNU archive site.
cd .. && perl admin/am_edit doc/Makefile.in
cd .. && \
CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
CONFIG_FILES=doc/Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status
fast creating doc/Makefile
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/niko/arson/doc'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/niko/arson/doc'
cd .. && make am--refresh
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/niko/arson'
cd . && \
CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_LINKS= \
CONFIG_FILES=Makefile /bin/sh ./config.status
fast creating Makefile
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/niko/arson'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/niko/arson'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `am--refresh'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/niko/arson'
make[2]: *** [../aclocal.m4] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/niko/arson/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/niko/arson'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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does anyone have any ideas how I can get my system up and running so I can compile from source?

im still new to this..

thanks in advance

ps, my problems are specific to downloaded source off the net - in the above example it is for the arson CD burner.