Hello,

Just took a closer look at work/automake-1.9.4/configure. Something is strange. From 
work/automake-1.9.4/config.log and line 2084 of configure it follows that
am_AUTOCONF should have the value autoconf. Nevertheless line 2085 of configure fails with 
no clear reason and then (which for me is not clear how it comes to) a try is made to 
execute the mk/gnu-config/missing script which also fails (not executable) and finally an 
error is generated.

Here are the parts from work/automake-1.9.4/config.log and work/automake-1.9.4/configure, 
which are (from my point of view) relevant:

config.log:
configure:2084: eval autoconf --version

configure:
2079: echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking whether autoconf is installed" >&5
2080: echo $ECHO_N "checking whether autoconf is installed... $ECHO_C" >&6
2081: if test "${am_cv_autoconf_installed+set}" = set; then
2082:   echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
2083: else
2084:   if { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: eval $am_AUTOCONF --version" >&5
2085:    (eval $am_AUTOCONF --version) >&5 2>&5
2086:    ac_status=$?
2087:    echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
2088:    (exit $ac_status); };
2089: then
2090:   am_cv_autoconf_installed=yes
2091: else
2092:   am_cv_autoconf_installed=no
2093: fi
2094: fi
2095: echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $am_cv_autoconf_installed" >&5
2096: echo "${ECHO_T}$am_cv_autoconf_installed" >&6
2097: if test "$am_cv_autoconf_installed" = no; then
2098:   { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: Autoconf 2.58 or better is required.

Best regards,

Serban Udrea