How to compile and install this source without errors? Link in the description

Question

It's very important for me to install QCADesigner 2.0.3 on my linux system (Ubuntu 16.04). You can find the source here. When I tried to configure it by running ./autogen.sh as mentioned in the readme file, I got the following error:

automake: warning: autoconf input should be named 'configure.ac', not 'configure.in'
src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
+ glib-gettextize -c
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in


Please add the files
  codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
  progtest.m4
from the /usr/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

But there isn't mentioned file (config.sub, config.guess) in the given link. Please someone help me to install this software.

Update: I've got the files config.sub and config.guess. But I have the following questions.

1) I don't have isc-posix.m4 in my /usr/share/aclocal directory. But I have printf-posix.m4 (I don't know if they're same). I have all other .m4 files. Where should I find isc-posix.m4?

2) Which is 'autoconf macro directory' ? OR

3) How to copy the above files to aclocal.m4 file?

4) Where should I put config.guess and config.sub files into?

Answer 1

If you go the mentioned URL you would find a README that contains the new location of both files. As the links might change I'm not including the links themselves.

Answer 2

There is a good chance that the aclocal.m4 file included with the source was generated with a different version of automake, or the paths were different on the original build system.

Either way, you can generate a new aclocal.m4 file with the autoreconf utility, which will point to the locations of those missing .m4 files.

$ cp aclocal.m4 aclocal.m4.bak # Back up the original just in case
$ autoreconf -ivf

You can then run your ./autogen.sh, and it should pick up the paths to the .m4 files.