Just started using Mandriva Spring 2008 ed., and now I can't compile things I used to due to some new version of make. How do I fix this, much thanks in advance.

configure.ac:3: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.10.1,
configure.ac:3: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
configure.ac:3: comes from Automake 1.9.5. You should recreate
configure.ac:3: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again.
make[2]: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/abdel/sc/scatterchat-module-1.02/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/abdel/sc/scatterchat-module-1.02'
make: *** [all] Error 2

As the error message suggests, you have to recreate the file aclocal.m4 and the template for the makefile. Simply run
inside the installation directory. Most likely automake will complain about some missing files. Some of them will be re-created (it will tell you about that, for example: required file "./install-sh" not found; installing) some will not. At this point you can create the missing files by yourself as empty files, using touch. Then re-run automake -a again, until it completes without any error message.

An intermediate step - between aclocal and automake - is
to generate the configure file. But since the error message does not mention it, I would ignore this step at the moment. Then re-run the installation steps, ./configure && make.

You can find documentation about the automake tools, here.