dbus compile problems

[John Hornbeck]

I have been trying to get dbus from cvs to install for along time, so
that I can play with beagle.  I have tried installing just about every
library I can think of, plus looking for the error messages online.
Have come up with nothing so I will post here, because it seems to be
Ubuntu specific.  Here is the output of "./autogen.sh"

hornbeck at ubuntu42 ~/cvs/dbus/dbus $ ./autogen.sh
I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish
to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line.
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to
`aclocal.m4'.
aclocal
aclocal: macro `AM_PATH_PYTHON' required but not defined
aclocal: configure.in: 160: macro `AM_PROG_GCJ' not found in library
aclocal: configure.in: 1088: macro `AM_PATH_PYTHON' not found in library
autoheader2.50: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.in
automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
configure.in: 8: required file `./config.h.in' not found
Makefile.am:35: variable `GLIB_PC' not defined
Makefile.am:35: variable `MONO_PC' not defined
Makefile.am:31: variable `GLIB_SUBDIR' not defined
Makefile.am:31: variable `GCJ_SUBDIR' not defined
Makefile.am:31: variable `MONO_SUBDIR' not defined
Makefile.am:31: variable `QT_SUBDIR' not defined
Makefile.am:31: variable `PYTHON_SUBDIR' not defined
python/Makefile.am:13: invalid unused variable name:
`nodist_dbus_bindings_la_SOURCES'
automake: qt/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support
libdbus_qt_1_la_LDFLAGS being defined conditionally
mono/doc/Makefile.am:27: EXTRA_DIST defined both conditionally and
unconditionally
automake: mono/doc/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support
EXTRA_DIST being defined conditionally
bus/Makefile.am:28: warning: automake does not support conditional
definition of XML_SOURCES in BUS_SOURCES
bus/Makefile.am:28: warning: automake does not support conditional
definition of XML_SOURCES in BUS_SOURCES
bus/Makefile.am:25: invalid unused variable name: `XML_SOURCES'
test/Makefile.am:6: variable `GLIB_SUBDIR' not defined
test/glib/Makefile.am: test_profile_OBJECTS should not be defined
doc/Makefile.am:1: EXTRA_DIST defined both conditionally and
unconditionally
automake: doc/Makefile.am: warning: automake does not support EXTRA_DIST
being defined conditionally
configure.in:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use
m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.in:8: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
configure.in:18: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_MAINTAINER_MODE
configure.in:52: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.in:160: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_GCJ
configure.in:185: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure.in:1088: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_PYTHON
configure.in:1101: error: possibly undefined macro:
AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS
autoconf failed - version 2.5x is probably required
./configure: line 1334: syntax error near unexpected token `dbus,'
./configure: line 1334: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dbus, 0.22)'

Now type 'make' to compile dbus.