error related with autoconfig

Errors as follow:

./configure: line 2140: AX_CHECK_ENABLE_DEBUG: command not found

checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
./configure: line 2262: AX_COMPILER_VENDOR: command not found
./configure: line 2263: AX_COMPILER_VERSION: command not found
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking cstdint usability... no
checking cstdint presence... no
checking for cstdint... no
./configure: line 3246: AX_PTHREAD: command not found
./configure: line 3252: syntax error near unexpected token `${cxxflags_test}'

./configure: line 3252: `       AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS(${cxxflags_test} -Wall -Wno-redeclared-class-member, CXXFLAGS)'

Reason:

Micros such as AX_PTHREAD were defined in autoconf-archive. We must install autoconf-archive first. Then we get a directory which contain th *.m4 files, such as ax_pthread.m4. Suppose this path is /home/tom/04.lib/autoconf-archive/share/aclocal.

To solve,

add a line to file Makefile.am: 

ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I /home/tom/04.lib/autoconf-archive/share/aclocal

then:

autoreconf -vif