configure.ac:27: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF

[ying lcs]

Hi,

I am running '.bootstrap' of VLC source under RHEL4.  But I am getting
the following error:

I have 'automake 1.9.6' 'autoconf 2.61' 'aclocal 1.9.6' 'm4 1.4.8' in
my system:

Copying file po/Makevars.template
+ rm -f po/Makevars.template
+ aclocal-1.9 -I /root/build-bin/share/aclocal-1.9 -I
/root/build-bin/share/aclocal -I /root/build-bin/share/autoconf -I
/root/video-dep-bin/share/aclocal -I m4
+ autoconf
configure.ac:1: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl
     If this token and others are legitimate, please use
m4_pattern_allow.
     See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:27: error: possibly undefined macro: AS_IF
configure.ac:41: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE
configure.ac:78: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
configure.ac:81: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_WARN
configure.ac:181: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_ARG_ENABLE
configure.ac:379: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_LIB
configure.ac:449: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_HEADERS
configure.ac:2089: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROG
configure.ac:5094: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PATH_PROGS

Can someone please help me about how/what can i do to fix my problem?

Thank you.