multi-line ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS isn't supported by autoreconf. It will cause configure error as follow. aclocal: error: non-option arguments are not accepted: '\'. Signed-off-by: Bian Naimeng diff -Nurp imsettings-1.6.8.orig/Makefile.am imsettings-1.6.8/Makefile.am --- imsettings-1.6.8.orig/Makefile.am 2013-02-08 11:33:59.000000000 +0900 +++ imsettings-1.6.8/Makefile.am 2015-06-24 14:15:32.070000007 +0900 @@ -1,9 +1,7 @@ NULL = SUBDIRS = data imsettings imsettings-daemon backends utils po tests docs -ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = \ - -I m4macros \ - $(NULL) +ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4macros $(NULL) CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES = \ requires \