Automake compile question

[Joseph Eckard]

While trying to compile PEAR for PHP on Mac OS X 10.1, it became clear 
that automake was not installed on my system. I grabbed automake-1.5 and 
gave it a shot and got the following errors (below). I'm not really that 
familiar with the details of Autoconf & Automake, and I thought this 
would be the best place to ask for help. I have been poking around in 
the configure script but the going is tedious and I haven't been able to 
figure out what is causing the errors.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Joe

--- configure output ---
% ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/Users/eckard/src/automake-1.5/lib: permission denied:  [1]
/Users/eckard/src/automake-1.5/lib: command not found: ansi2knr.c [2]
/Users/eckard/src/automake-1.5/lib: command not found: ansi2knr.1 [3]
/Users/eckard/src/automake-1.5/lib: command not found: config.sub [4]
/Users/eckard/src/automake-1.5/lib: command not found: install-sh [5]
/Users/eckard/src/automake-1.5/lib: command not found: elisp-comp [6]
/Users/eckard/src/automake-1.5/lib: command not found: py-compile [7]
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/Automake/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/am/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating m4/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating tests/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating automake
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating aclocal
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern