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spankytanky_LDADD = -L/usr/lib -lSDL
spankytanky_CPPFLAGS =-I/usr/include/SDL -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 -D_REENTRANT

I had to fix Makefile.am and the Makefile.am in the project directory
/s/SUBDIR/SUBDIRS

That is actually ok.
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR parameter, is some file that is in the package's source directory; configure checks for this file's existence to make sure that the directory that it is told...

Hi,
I have only one small cpp file but I am having hard time building it with autotools.
Before I started with autotools I built it with:
g++ main.cpp `sdl-config --cflags --libs`
and that worked...