[aldug@edison acme]$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local/gnome2 
/usr/local/gnome2/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
processing .
Creating ./aclocal.m4 ...
Running glib-gettextize...  Ignore non-fatal messages.
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/local/gnome2/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/.

Making ./aclocal.m4 writable ...
Running intltoolize...
patching file po/Makefile.in.in
Hunk #1 succeeded at 21 (offset 7 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 34 (offset -5 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 99 with fuzz 2 (offset 7 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 196 (offset -22 lines).
Hunk #5 succeeded at 236 (offset 7 lines).
Running aclocal -I /usr/local/gnome2/share/aclocal/gnome2-macros  ...
aclocal: configure.in: 51: macro `AM_PATH_ALSA' not found in library
Running autoheader...
autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.in
Running automake --gnu  ...
automake: configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
automake: configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
automake: configure.in: installing `./missing'
configure.in: 5: required file `./config.h.in' not found
automake: src/Makefile.am: C source seen but `CC' not defined in `configure.in'
Running autoconf ...
configure.in:4: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
configure.in:5: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONFIG_HEADER
configure.in:13: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_INTLTOOL
configure.in:29: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2
configure.in:48: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.in:51: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_ALSA
configure.in:71: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
Running ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-compile-warnings --prefix=/usr/local/gnome2 ...
./configure: line 923: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(acme,'
./configure: line 923: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(acme, 1.99.8)'