[msmtp-users] Error in autoreconf -i

[Joe Philip Ninan <indiajoe@...20...>]

Hi,
I was trying to install msmtp using the instructions given in the following page.
http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/download.html
At the "autoreconf -i" command It filas saying couldn't open direcotry 'm4'

I have the latest versions of automake-1.13 and autoconf-2.69 installed.
Following is the output i get.
-------------------OUTPUT
   joe@...335...:~$ git clone git://msmtp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/msmtp/msmtp

Cloning into 'msmtp'...
remote: Counting objects: 3288, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1624/1624), done.
remote: Total 3288 (delta 2542), reused 2168 (delta 1659)
Receiving objects: 100% (3288/3288), 1.35 MiB | 358 KiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (2542/2542), done.

   joe@...335...:~$ cd msmtp/
   joe@...335...:~/msmtp$ autoreconf -i
configure.ac:45: warning: macro 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library

aclocal: error: couldn't open directory 'm4': No such file or directory
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
-----------------------------------END OF OUTPUT

What does this error mean?

I tried creating an empty m4/ directory.
Then the autoreconf -i gives the following error
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    joe@...335...:~/msmtp$ mkdir m4
    joe@...335...:~/msmtp$ autoreconf -i
configure.ac:45: warning: macro 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT' not found in library

configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.

autoreconf: /usr/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
-------------------------------------END

How can i solve this issue?

I am using Porteus distro. 
Linux Kernel (3.5.2)

Thanks,
joe

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