./prepare asks for ./config.guess and config.sub

[V. <gae...@no...>]

  I am being very stupid but the prepare script from the CVS asks from
two file it cannot find :

omicron ~/gnuplot $ ./prepare
make: `Makefile.am' is up to date.
make: `Makefile.am' is up to date.
make: `Makefile.am' is up to date.
make: `Makefile.am' is up to date.
make: `Makefile.am' is up to date.
automake: configure.in: required file `../config.guess' not found
automake: configure.in: required file `../config.sub' not found

  On my system I found=20
/usr/share/automake/config.guess
/usr/share/automake/config.sub

   I copied them in the gnuplot directory and then the prepare script
worked. Is this normal ?

   I also find it strange that, if you don't give a --prefix=3Dfoobar, yo=
u
need root permission to make (and not make install). "make" should never
need root permission.

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  Ga=EBl