Problem with autoreconf

Question

I'm having a problem when trying to build the library libmatheval (problem is reoccurring regardless of version chosen). The documentation says that before building and installing it I should run autoreconf -fi, which is causing an issue.

The terminal is giving me this:

configure:11759: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_FROM_LIBS
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

As far as I can tell this is a problem connected to guile. There is some information about this (or a similar) problem here: https://sourceforge.net/p/autogen/mailman/message/29764332/ with the main comment being;

AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS_FROM_LIBS is defined in gnulib/m4/lib-link.m4 and needs  the file gnulib/build-aux/config.rpath. 

In other words, using guile.m4 requires using gnulib.

Though I am not sure exactly what this means my uneducated guess is that autoconf is looking in the wrong place for guile? I've tried adding some directories to LD_LIBRARY_PATH but sadly it has not worked. GNUlib is installed an up to date.

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, GNU Autoconf is on version 2.64

Many thanks in advance.

Why are you trying to build it from source? libmatheval-dev 1.1.11 appears to be available from the repository - there doesn't appear to be a more recent version — steeldriver, Mar 21 '17 at 13:25
Also, what documentation exactly is telling you that you need to run autoreconf? It's rarely necessary when building GNU software on Linux. — steeldriver, Mar 21 '17 at 15:15
Thank you for the edit George. Ah I was not aware it was available from the repository; I will try installing it from there a go - thanks. — Dave Woodward, Mar 22 '17 at 11:28
You will need to enable the universe repository if you have not already done so. — steeldriver, Mar 22 '17 at 11:42

Problem with autoreconf

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