libwww for Solaris

I am new to this stuff, so....

I've installed a cut of the CVS tree on my system, and I wish to compile 
the library. (Solaris 2.8, Compiler SC5.0)

I've just run autoconf to generate the configure file and have invoked
configure which detects an error:

configure: syntax error at line 710: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' unexpected

According to the W3C web site, this has been tried out on Solaris.

I've not used autoconf before, but from the help it seems that it should not
need any parameters.

Before I go off an figure out what a configure.,in should look like, I was wondering if ther 
was something I had missed.

Thanks,

Sean

AUTOCONF OUTPUT --->

/usr/local/bin/autoconf
configure.in:44: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX
configure.in:184: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:185: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:186: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:187: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:192: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:193: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:194: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
configure.in:894: warning: AC_TRY_RUN called without default to allow cross compiling
autoconf: Undefined macros:
configure.in:188:AC_CHECK_SIZEOF_TIME_T
configure.in:189:AC_CHECK_SIZEOF_SIZE_T
configure.in:197:AC_STRUCT_GMTOFF
configure.in:199:AC_STRUCT_WINSIZE
configure.in:268:      AC_ADDLIB($withval)
configure.in:305:      AC_ADDLIB($withval)
configure.in:353:      	      AC_ADDLIB($withval)
configure.in:380:      	      AC_ADDLIB($withval)
configure.in:419:         AC_ADDLIB("/usr/local/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a")
configure.in:421:         AC_ADDLIB("/usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.a")
configure.in:426:      AC_ADDLIB($withval)

CONFIGURE OUTPUT ---->

loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking target system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8
./configure: syntax error at line 710: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' unexpected

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Sean MacRoibeaird
XML Technology Centre
Sun Microsystems,
East Point Business Park,
Dublin 3,
Ireland

Phone: x19173/+353 1 8199173
e-mail: sean.macroibeaird@ireland.sun.com

Received on Monday, 8 May 2000 11:27:53 UTC