OK ... I'm trying to install Clanlib 0.7.2 and it complains that I need autoconf 2.54 or greater (current 2.53). No probs I thought, d/loaded the autoconf-2.54.tar.gz file and run ./configure and get the following:

[root@localhost autoconf-2.54]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for expr... /usr/bin/expr
checking for gm4... no
checking for gnum4... no
checking for m4... /usr/bin/m4
checking whether m4 supports frozen files... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for emacs... emacs
checking for emacs... (cached) emacs
checking where .elc files should go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/atlocal
config.status: creating tests/autoconf
config.status: creating tests/autoheader
config.status: creating tests/autom4te
config.status: creating tests/autoreconf
config.status: creating tests/autoscan
config.status: creating tests/autoupdate
config.status: creating tests/ifnames
config.status: creating man/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/emacs/Makefile
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating doc/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Autom4te/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autoscan/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/m4sugar/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autoconf/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/autotest/Makefile
config.status: creating bin/Makefile
config.status: executing tests/atconfig commands

So far so good I think. Then I run make and get the following:

[root@localhost autoconf-2.54]# make
cd . && /bin/sh /home/baldrick/tmp/autoconf-2.54/config/missing --run aclocal-1.6c -I config
/home/baldrick/tmp/autoconf-2.54/config/missing: line 46: aclocal-1.6c: command not found
WARNING: `aclocal-1.6c' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'. You might want
to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages. Grab them from
any GNU archive site.
cd . && \
/bin/sh /home/baldrick/tmp/autoconf-2.54/config/missing --run automake-1.6c --gnu Makefile
/home/baldrick/tmp/autoconf-2.54/config/missing: line 46: automake-1.6c: command not found
WARNING: `automake-1.6c' is missing on your system. You should only need it if
you modified `Makefile.am', `acinclude.m4' or `configure.ac'.
You might want to install the `Automake' and `Perl' packages.
Grab them from any GNU archive site.
cd . && /bin/sh /home/baldrick/tmp/autoconf-2.54/config/missing --run autoconf
aclocal.m4:46: error: Autoconf version 2.53b or higher is required
aclocal.m4:46: the top level
make: *** [configure] Error 1

Question: What have I done?

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