You need aclocal from GNU automake 1.5 (or newer) to do this.
Then run 'autoconf' to regenerate the configure file.

You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from the CVS
of the 'config' project at http://savannah.gnu.org/. The commands to fetch them
are
$ wget 'http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.guess'
$ wget 'http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/config/config/config.sub'

You might also want to copy the convenience header file gettext.h
from the /usr/share/gettext directory into your package.
It is a wrapper around <libintl.h> that implements the configure --disable-nls
option.

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autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.in
configure.in: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.in: You should verify that configure.in invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.in: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.in: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
Makefile.am:2: ALSAMIXER does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.in:5: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.in:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
configure.in:8: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
configure.in:30: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_ALSA
configure.in:39: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.in:85: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -pipe -g
./configure 
./configure: line 1640: syntax error near unexpected token `alsa-utils,'
./configure: line 1640: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(alsa-utils, 1.0.14rc2)'