order to run autotools

[Bob Rossi]

Hi,

I'm learning a lot about the autotools. I want to say thanks to the list
for teaching me so much! 

I have a quick question, I run the autotools in this order,
  aclocal -I config
  autoconf -f
  autoheader
  automake -a
when I do an out-of-tree configure it works fine, but when I do the make
I get,
  cd ../cgdb && /bin/bash
  /home/bob/rcs/svn/cgdb/cgdb.testsuite/cgdb/config/missing --run
  autoheader

Am I doing something wrong or is this expected?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi