autoreconf

autotools: autoreconf can't find macro but aclocal can

I'm trying to use autotools for the first time as a developer, so excuse any noobishness. I'm using the Check unit testing library which defines the macro AM_PATH_CHECK in check.m4, which was installed in /usr/local/share/aclocal. I managed to get aclocal to recognize AM_PATH_CHECK by editing /usr/share/aclocal/dirlist to include /usr/...

LT_VERSION for libtool and autoconf not being recognized.

My configure.in file has LT_VERSION="1.1". I am using the latest version of autoconf and libtool. While using autoconf or autoreconf, I am getting the following error message: configure.ac:41: error: possibly undefined macro: LT_VERSION If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentat...