Try updating to the latest stable
release first and then tell me if it works. Perhaps just a
minimum-required-version-bump is necessary.
in stable release (sawfish-1.3.5.1):
$ ./autogen.sh Running aclocal configure.in:148: warning: macro `AM_PATH_REP' not found in library
Running autoconf configure.in:148: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_REP If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation.
$ autoconf Running aclocal configure.in:148: warning: macro `AM_PATH_REP' not found in library Running autoconf checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no checking for xdr_void in -lnsl... yes checking for bind in -lsocket... no checking for X... libraries , headers checking for gethostbyname... yes
checking for connect... yes checking for remove... yes checking for shmat... yes checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes
checking for sys/wait.h that is POSIX.1 compatible... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking fcntl.h usability... yes checking fcntl.h presence... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking sys/time.h usability... yes checking sys/time.h presence... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking sys/utsname.h usability... yes checking sys/utsname.h presence... yes checking for sys/utsname.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking for memory.h... (cached) yes checking for X11/SM/SMlib.h... yes checking for X11/extensions/Xdbe.h... yes checking for XineramaQueryScreens in -lXinerama... yes
checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h usability... yes checking X11/extensions/Xinerama.h presence... yes checking for X11/extensions/Xinerama.h... yes checking for XRRUpdateConfiguration in -lXrandr... yes checking for X11/extensions/Xrandr.h... yes
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for XFT... yes checking X11/Xft/Xft.h usability... yes checking X11/Xft/Xft.h presence... yes checking for X11/Xft/Xft.h... yes
checking for PANGO... yes ./configure: line 6634: syntax error near unexpected token `0.17' ./configure: line 6634: `AM_PATH_REP(0.17)'