I'm afraid the migration to automake is not yet complete; do not use it. Simply use the makefiles that are in the tarball. (You may need to unpack it again, if automake did something strange to them.)
It's probably also better to compile just the parts you want to use; as the
documentation says, to run the basic demo, change into the demo/basic directory and run "make" there...
i'm currently facing some problems regarding the installation of MatPLC under Ubuntu 8.04
with a linux kernel 2.2.24-24-generic.
i have downloaded mat-weekly and have unpacked it before running ./autogen.sh in the
/tools/config directory. 2 problems come up when i do this;
Please run 'aclocal -I m4' to regenerate the aclocal.m4 file.
You need aclocal from GNU automake 1.9 (or newer) to do...