compilation problem

[Bradley Bell <bradleyb shelob classrooms washington edu>]

Hi, I've been trying to get gnome compiled from the cvs sources.
I've been following the instructions on Soren Harward's tutorial page...
I have successfully compiled and installed glib, gtk+, and imlib.
So, the next step is libIDL, right?
This is how it dies:

shelob:~/cvs/gnome/libIDL$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome --with-gtk-prefix=/opt/gnome
processing .
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
aclocal: configure.in: 33: macro `AM_PATH_GLIB' not found in library
autoconf: Undefined macros:
configure.in:12:AC_CPP_ACCEPT_IDL
configure.in:16:AC_CPP_PIPE_STDIN
Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --prefix=/opt/gnome --with-gtk-prefix=/opt/gnome
creating cache ./config.cache
./configure: line 521: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libIDL,'
./configure: line 521: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libIDL, 0.5.1)'

Now type 'make' to compile libIDL.

shelob:~/cvs/gnome/libIDL$

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needless to say, a 'make' doesn't work :-)
OK, so where are these macros sopposed to be defined?

I tried setting ACLOCAL_FLAGS to -I /opt/gnome/share/aclocal
that makes the AM_PATH_GLIB problem go away, but I then get:
aclocal: /opt/gnome/share/aclocal/gtk.m4: 7: duplicated macro `AM_PATH_GTK'
which is probably harmless, I dunno.
But configure still dies.

the line about adding /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 to aclocal.m4 confuses
me.  What aclocal.m4 is it talking about?  there isn't one in the libIDL
directory.
so, I try linking /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 to libIDL/aclocal.m4
that doesn't work either.

anyone have a clue they could toss my way?

-brad