Same as in bug 10030. AM_CONFIG_HEADER shouldn't be used anymore and it used to be a warning for a long time, now it's fatal error with automake-1.13: aclocal-1.13: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in' configure.in:32: error: 'AM_CONFIG_HEADER': this macro is obsolete. You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead. /usr/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete-err.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from... configure.in:32: the top level autom4te-2.69: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal-1.13: error: echo failed with exit status: 1 The fix is simple: sed -i -e 's:AM_CONFIG_HEADER:AC_CONFIG_HEADERS:' configure.in.in As in, replace AM_CONFIG_HEADER with AC_CONFIG_HEADERS in configure.in.in (notice it's HEADERS, not HEADER) (Why not use the modern name, configure.ac instead of configure.in while at it?)
Also, if you maintain more plugins, please do the same fix there too.
fixed in commit 22a38db5b136395ab7f2bf971b2d758774963983