[Mingw-users] Trouble installing autoconf

[Kostas K. <mav...@gm...>]

Hello!

Lately I have run to some trouble trying to use autoconf and I would be very
grateful if you guys could offer me some help.

I tried to compile id3lib with configure and make but that failed, 
because when
running configure an error came up saying that I was missing a "vital" 
function,
namely truncate. But, after searching some mailing lists I found out that
truncate is not really needed for mingw, and I have to edit the configure.in
file, remove the lines that demanded the function to be there and run 
autoconf.
So, I downloaded the msys-autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2 file from the mingw 
Sourceforge
download page and extracted it to the directory where Msys is installed. But
when I try to run autoconf I get the following:

Kostas@HOME ~
$ cd /c/cpplibs/id3lib

Kostas@HOME /c/cpplibs/id3lib
$ autoconf
/bin/autoconf: /usr/bin/autom4te: No such file or directory
/bin/autoconf: /usr/bin/autom4te: No such file or directory

But autom4te can be found where autoconf wants it to be!

Kostas@HOME /c/cpplibs/id3lib
$ ls /usr/bin/autom4te
/usr/bin/autom4te

So what did I do wrong?