Problems executing ./prepare

[Caroline W. <ca...@gm...>]

Hello

I'm trying to download and compile the dev version because I'm
desperate to get my hands on the new histogram functionality. Forgive
me if the solution to my problem is trivial, but I've never tried
downloading and compiling from CVS before.

When I execute prepare I get the following errors:

automake: configure.in: required file `../config.guess' not found
automake: configure.in: required file `../config.sub' not found

This is on Debian GNU/Linux, with kernel version 2.6.8-2-686-smp, and
I'm using the cvs copy I downloaded about 12hrs ago, which I don't
believe has been patched in the intervening period.

Are these files I'm meant to have on my own box, or is something
missing in the downloaded files?

Thanks for your help.

Caroline