Unable to build amhello package from scratch on Debian

[Abhinav Singh]

Hi,

This is my first time with autotools and I tried following:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/automake/Creating-amhello.html#Creating-amhello
to get started.

However when I issue the:
*$bash: autoreconf --install*

I get the following error:
configure.ac: 4: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not
`AC_CONFIG_HEADER'
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./AUTHORS' not found
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./ChangeLog' not found
configure.ac: 4: required file `./[config.h].in' not found
Makefile.am:2: invalid variable `dist_doc_DATA'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

is this a OS specific problem? Can someone help me with this?

Regards,
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