$ git ls-files -o|xargs rm $ git ls-files -o $ ./autogen.sh User defined paths to the preferred autoconf and automake versions. Read the script if you would like to modify them. AUTOMAKE=automake-1.9 ACLOCAL=aclocal AUTOCONF=autoconf AUTOHEADER=autoheader Now building the ./configure script... checking for automake version... 1.9.6 checking for aclocal version... 1.10 Running aclocal -I m4 ... Running libtoolize ... Running autoheader ... Running automake ... configure.ac:8: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.9.6, configure.ac:8: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.ac:8: comes from Automake 1.10. You should recreate configure.ac:8: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. configure.ac: installing `./install-sh' configure.ac: installing `./missing' mpeg2enc/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' Makefile.am: installing `./compile'