./configure error when building mtn: "cannot find sources () in . or .."

[Ryan Barrett]

hi all! i recently switched platforms, to ubuntu 6.06 (dapper drake), and i'm 
having trouble running autogen.sh from mtn. it generates the configure script 
successfully, but it then immediately fails with "configure: error: cannot 
find sources () in . or ..".

details below. i don't have much experience with autoconf, but from what i've 
read, the other warnings are probably unrelated. i'm using autoconf 2.59 and 
automake 1.7; more on my setup in http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/811 . i've 
tried re-runinng autogen.sh in a clean workspace, but no luck. any ideas?

laptop:~/shared/pidgin-mtn> ./autogen.sh 
Generating configuration files for Pidgin, please wait....

Running libtoolize, please ignore non-fatal messages.... 
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'. 
Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in

Please add the files
   codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
   progtest.m4
from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory 
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file. 
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from 
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

You should add the contents of '/usr/share/aclocal/intltool.m4' to 'aclocal.m4'.
/usr/share/aclocal/glib.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_GLIB
   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal 
configure.ac: installing `./install-sh' 
configure.ac: installing `./missing' 
finch/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' 
finch/plugins/Makefile.am: installing `./compile'

Running ./configure

configure: error: cannot find sources () in . or .. 
laptop:~/shared/pidgin-mtn>

-Ryan

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