I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line. Running aclocal -I . -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal ... /usr/bin/m4: INTERNAL ERROR: recursive push_string! autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1 Running automake --gnu ... /usr/bin/m4: INTERNAL ERROR: recursive push_string! autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 automake: autoconf failed with exit status: 1 Running autoconf ... /usr/bin/m4: INTERNAL ERROR: recursive push_string! autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 Running ./configure ... ./autogen.sh: line 83: ./configure: No such file or directory