Eu sei que é um problema de 2 anos e você provavelmente se levantou com a sua vida, mas ao mesmo tempo que encontrou o mesmo problema, descobri que o problema a seguir ajudou:
touch xmldocs.make
espero que algum dia alguém ache útil: -)
Estou usando o fedora 23 64 bits aqui, suponho que tenha todos os dev deps instalados, no entanto este último não sei como resolver:
[sombriks@sephiroth planner]$ sh autogen.sh
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
***Warning*** USE_COMMON_DOC_BUILD is deprecated, you may remove it from autogen.sh
***Warning*** USE_GNOME2_MACROS is deprecated, you may remove it from autogen.sh
***Warning*** PKG_NAME is deprecated, you may remove it from autogen.sh
checking for automake >= 1.9...
testing automake... found 1.15
checking for autoreconf >= 2.53...
testing autoreconf... found 2.69
checking for intltool >= 0.25...
testing intltoolize... found 0.51.0
checking for pkg-config >= 0.14.0...
testing pkg-config... found 0.28
checking for gtk-doc >= 1.0...
testing gtkdocize... found 1.24
Checking for required M4 macros...
**Warning**: I am going to run 'configure' with no arguments.
If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
'autogen.sh' command line.
Processing ./configure.ac
Running gtkdocize...
Running intltoolize...
Running autoreconf...
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force --warnings=no-portability
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: Consider adding 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' to configure.ac,
libtoolize: and rerunning libtoolize and aclocal.
libtoolize: Consider adding '-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force --warnings=no-portability
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force --warnings=no-portability
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing --warnings=no-portability
configure.ac:6: warning: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE: two- and three-arguments forms are deprecated. For more info, see:
configure.ac:6: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Modernize-AM_005fINIT_005fAUTOMAKE-invocation
configure.ac:10: installing './compile'
configure.ac:6: installing './missing'
automake: error: cannot open < xmldocs.make: No such file or directory
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
[sombriks@sephiroth planner]$
Qualquer ajuda é bem-vinda.