I'm using gentoo, I've tried the following code with autoconf version 2.13 and 2.59 configure.in Code: AC_INIT ([main.c]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([wewa], [0.0.1]) AC_PROG_CC AC_PROG_INSTALL dnl ================================== Requirements =================================== LIBGLADE_REQUIRED=2.3.6 GTK_REQUIRED=2.6.1 GCONF_REQUIRED=2.5.90 dnl =================================================================================== WEWA_MODULES="gtk+-2.0 >= $GTK_REQUIRED gconf-2.0 >= $GCONF_REQUIRED libglade-2.0 >= $LIBGLADE_REQUIRED" PKG_CHECK_MODULES(WEWA, $WEWA_MODULES) AC_OUTPUT ([Makefile]) Makefile.am Code: bin_PROGRAMS = \ wewa wewa_SOURCES = \ main.c \ wewatypes.h I run acloacl && autoconf && automake && ./configure and this is my output of configure: Code: loading cache ./config.cache ./configure: line 523: main.c: command not found checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal-1.4... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake-1.4... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.1 gconf-2.0 >= 2.5.90 libglade-2.0 >= 2.3.6... yes checking WEWA_CFLAGS... -DXTHREADS -D_REENTRANT -DXUSE_MTSAFE_API -DORBIT2=1 -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/freetype2/config -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 checking WEWA_LIBS... -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -lgconf-2 -lORBit-2 -lgthread-2.0 -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status ./configure: line 1435: Makefile: command not found _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf