Errors when building gconf (and control-panel)

[Toralf Lund <toralf kscanners com>]

This is probably a stupid question (I'm not really into
autoconf/automake), but can anyone explain the meaning of the below
error messages, which i get when trying to build "gconf"?

     ./autogen.sh
     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.
     processing .
     Creating ./aclocal.m4 ...
     Running gettextize...  Ignore non-fatal messages.
     You should update your own `aclocal.m4' by adding the necessary
     macro packages gettext.m4, lcmessage.m4 and progtest.m4 from
     the directory `/aclocal'
     Making ./aclocal.m4 writable ...
     Running libtoolize...
     You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
     Running aclocal  ...
     aclocal: configure.in: 108: macro `AM_PATH_OAF' not found in library
     Running autoheader...
     Running automake --gnu  ...
     gconf/Makefile.am:65: variable `OAF_LIBS' not defined
     gconf/Makefile.am:65: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     gconf/Makefile.am:33: variable `OAF_LIBS' not defined
     gconf/Makefile.am:33: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     gconf/Makefile.am:43: variable `OAF_LIBS' not defined
     gconf/Makefile.am:43: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     backends/Makefile.am:19: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     wrappers/gtk/Makefile.am:16: variable `OAF_LIBS' not defined
     wrappers/gtk/Makefile.am:16: variable `GTK_LIBS' not defined
     wrappers/gtk/Makefile.am:23: variable `GTK_LIBS' not defined
     examples/Makefile.am:16: variable `GTK_LIBS' not defined
     examples/Makefile.am:16: variable `GTK_LIBS' not defined
     examples/Makefile.am:16: variable `GTK_LIBS' not defined
     tests/Makefile.am:17: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     tests/Makefile.am:25: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     tests/Makefile.am:29: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     tests/Makefile.am:33: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     tests/Makefile.am:37: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     tests/Makefile.am:13: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     tests/Makefile.am:21: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     tests/Makefile.am:41: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     tests/Makefile.am:46: variable `GLIB_LIBS' not defined
     Running autoconf ...
     Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-compile-warnings ...
     loading cache ./config.cache
     ./configure: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
     ./configure: ./configure: line 531: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'

I also get similar problems when trying to build control-panel, which is
what I really want (because the Helix GNOME 1.2 version dumps core for
certain capplets); I want to compile gconf because it looks like
control-panel needs it.

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- Toralf