Quote Originally Posted by gpetty View Post
Once again I was an unwitting victim of the path order ... I had automake 1.9 installed in /sw/bin, but it was hitting version 1.6 in /usr/bin first.
Whilst having 2 automake's on your system isn't generally a good thing, and you have probably fixed the immediate problem, for future reference you can probably do (under bash, I don't know csh):
AUTOMAKE=/path/to/automake AUTOCONF=/path/to/autoconf AUTORECONF=/path/to/autoreconf (etc.) ./configure <options>

I know the FreeBSD guys use this.

Alex