I'm back. Unfortunately I'm not much liking what I see!

[Eric S. Raymond]

I picked up a way to beat a sneaky spammer trick at Paul Graham's
conference on Friday.  I want to merge it in -- but I can't get
bogofilter 0.10.0 to build under Linux (Red Hat 8,0 on an i386)!

esr at snark:~/WWW/bogofilter$ configure
./configure: line 1284: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: command not found
./configure: line 1285: syntax error near unexpected token `config.h:config.in'
./configure: line 1285: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h:config.in)'
esr at snark:~/WWW/bogofilter$ autoconf
configure.ac:5: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LEX
configure.ac:179: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
esr at snark:~/WWW/bogofilter$ automake
configure.ac:5: no proper implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found,
configure.ac:5: probably because aclocal.m4 is missing...
configure.ac:5: You should run aclocal to create this file, then
configure.ac:5: run automake again.
configure.ac: required file `./install-sh' not found
configure.ac: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
configure.ac: required file `./missing' not found
configure.ac:6: required file `./config.in' not found
Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.ac: required file `./ylwrap' not found
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/share/automake-1.6/am/lang-compile.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL

This is bogus.  it looks like the build is completely broken.  The
generic installation instructions are useless.

What have you done to my code? :-(
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

Love your country, but never trust its government.
	-- Robert A. Heinlein.