Trouble compiling the upstart bzr tree

[David Gaarenstroom]

> These are the same steps as for many other GNU autotools based
> software packages (e.g. almost all of GNU projects, gnome, etc)

Thanks for the info. Normally I only need to run "automake" in the
occasion that I need to add files to a project or autoconf in the
unlikely event that I had to modify configure.ac. I've never used
autotools for my own projects, just plain Makefile or qmake. There's a
first time for everything...