I have a question about using automake on the N900. It did not work at all to start with as all the scripts had hard-coded paths to /scratchbox/tools/bin. Having changed them to /usr/bin has made a big progress but I am still getting this for pretty much every random package I get from the source repos:
I can't believe it's the package as it is perfectly reproducable for any package built with autotools.

Sure thing, I've found a few sources complaining about the same thing in automake 1.10 (which is what I am using):
https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-aut.../msg01590.html
http://gnu-automake.7480.n7.nabble.c...on-td8782.html
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=requires%20AM_PROG_CC_C_O

However I am not very experienced with autotools and do not fully understand the implications or how to fix it. Any ideas?