autogen.sh failure

[w0o <woo bofh ru>]

I can't compile gtk+ (as well as all other things taken from gnome cvs)...
everything is stucked on autogen.sh.. is says that my automake is too 
old... (huh?)

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$autogen.sh
You must have automake 1.4-p1 installed to compile Gtk+.
Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.4-p1.tar.gz
(or a newer version if it is available)
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But I have  automake  1.7...

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$automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.7
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I tried to put up automake 1.4-p1 but that doesn't help either...

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$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p1
.............
$ autogen.sh
You must have automake 1.4-p1 installed to compile Gtk+.
Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/automake/automake-1.4-p1.tar.gz
(or a newer version if it is available)
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What's the problem then? How can I compile the source?