[Xcb] error in autogen.sh

[Jeremy A. Kolb]

When running autogen.sh in xcb I get 

aclocal:configure.ac:10: warning: 
macro `AM_PATH_CHECK' not found in library
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
configure.ac:10: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_CHECK
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use 
m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

It then produces a bad configure:

jkolb at glorfindel:~/cvs/xcb$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/fdo/
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
./configure: line 1956: syntax error near unexpected token 
`ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers src/config.h"'
./configure: line 1956: `          ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers 
src/config.h"'


Any ideas?