On Saturday 10 October 2009 03:29:15 Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> and trying to run autoconf produce
> configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:16: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_CC_C_O
> configure.ac:54: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
> make: *** [/usr/src/log_i486/02_base/kbd-1.15.1] Error 1

you arent running autotools properly.  if you dont know the proper substeps, 
then just run:
	autoreconf

i dont know how the dist tarball is being created, but it really should be 
with `make distcheck` so that these kind of common mistakes are prevented
-mike