bug#16530: Bootstrapping fails with missing "m4/cu-progs.m4"

[April Arcus]

I'm having a similar problem on a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04:
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$ ./bootstrap
./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out coreutils sources...
./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib
./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
./bootstrap: getting translations into po/.reference for coreutils...
receiving incremental file list
./

sent 37 bytes  received 655 bytes  197.71 bytes/sec
total size is 16,363,502  speedup is 23,646.68
./bootstrap: autopoint --force
sh: 1: build-aux/git-version-gen: not found
/usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:451: cannot open `m4/cu-progs.m4': No such file or 
directory
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a line 
'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is using
autopoint: *** Stop.
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$ autoconf --version | head -n1
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69
$ automake --version | head -n1
automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1
$ gettext --version | head -n1
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.18.3
$ gcc --version | head -n1
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2
$ m4 --version | head -n1
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.17
$ git describe --always
v8.22-71-g14613e2