How to compile LXDE on OpenIndiana - how to deal with those AM errors in lxde-common-qt?

Fresh install, installed ss-dev, gcc-dev, sunstudio, a few other packages I thought were relevant based on what I read. Just want to compile LXDE from source because when I look at installing from components ( http://lxde.org/download ) well not all the newer QT based stuff is there plus I get errors configuring so it's not even easier. So I use http://lxde.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb-index.cgi instead i.e. let's start with lxde-common-qt. Clone that. autogen.sh complains automake is not there. export AUTOMAKE="automake-1.10" as trying automake+tab yields that (I know this is not the best way of doing this, but using export guarantees I don't screw up in any lasting fashion). This works, as autogen goes further. Here it starts: + [ x != x ] + aclocal ./autogen.sh: aclocal: not found [No such file or directory] + automake-1.10 --add-missing --copy --include-deps configure.ac: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found. configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory, configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal). configure.ac:8: installing `./install-sh' man/Makefile.am:5: ENABLE_REGENERATE_MAN does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL + autoconf configure.ac:3: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:40: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL + rm -rf autom4te.cache ------------------------ So let's take a look at configure.ac: C_PREREQ([2.57]) AC_INIT(lxde-common-qt,[0.5.5], [],lxde-common-qt) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE() dnl AC_PROG_INTLTOOL(, [no-xml]) dnl AM_MAINTAINER_MODE Checks for programs. AC_PROG_INSTALL AC_PROG_LN_S AC_ARG_ENABLE(man, [AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-man], [regenerate roff man pages from Docbook @@])], [enable_man="${enableval}"], [enable_man=no] ) xsessions data of path for GDM AC_ARG_WITH([xsession-path], AS_HELP_STRING( [--with-xsession-path=PATH], [set the install path of xsession data [[DATAROOTDIR/xsessions]]]), [test x$withval != x && xsesspath="$withval"], [xsesspath="\${datarootdir}/xsessions"]) AC_SUBST(xsesspath) if test x"$enable_man" = x"yes"; then AC_PATH_PROG([XSLTPROC], [xsltproc]) if test -z "$XSLTPROC"; then enable_man=no fi dnl check for DocBook DTD and stylesheets in the local catalog. JH_CHECK_XML_CATALOG([-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN], [DocBook XML DTD V4.1.2], [], enable_man=no) JH_CHECK_XML_CATALOG([http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release /xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl], [DocBook XSL Stylesheets >= 1.70.1], [], enable_man=no) fi AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_REGENERATE_MAN, test "x$enable_man" != "xno") AC_OUTPUT([ Makefile startlxde-qt lxde-logout-qt LXDE-Qt.desktop lxde-logout-qt.desktop lxpanel/panel openbox/rc.xml man/Makefile ]) if test x"$sysconfdir" != x'/etc'; then echo echo echo 'Error: sysconfdir is not /etc.' echo 'Please consider passing --sysconfdir=/etc to configure.'; echo 'Otherwise default config files will be installed to wrong place.' echo echo fi ---------- Sure I see AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is empty, so I tried putting all sorts of variations of "[lxde-common-qt 0.5.5]" but not success... I mean no, nothing has ever been compiled on this and I don't have much experience. Usually I'll try to install missing packages, use export a bit for obvious things, but those automake errors... what is that. There's no aclocal.m4 file in the project folder: AUTHORS lxde-logout-qt.desktop.in autogen.shlxde-logout-qt.in autostart LXDE-Qt.desktop.in ChangeLog lxpanel config.h.in Makefile.am configure man configure.ac NEWS COPYING openbox desktop.conf cmanfm-qt imagesREADME INSTALL startlxde-qt.in install-sh wallpapers Do I need to use something like a *m4_pattern_allow([^m4_cv_])* entry in the configure.ac file?