Fwd: Trouble compiling the upstart bzr tree

[David Gaarenstroom]

I'm trying to contribute to upstart and I have some trouble compiling
the latest upstart in bzr (on Ubuntu 12.10). According to the Upstart
Cookbook http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#development-and-testing
setting up an Upstart Development Environment would be as simple as
running:

bzr branch lp:upstart
cd upstart
./configure

However, after running bzr there is no configure at all, only an
configure.ac. That isn't a problem for me, aclocal, automake and
autoconf would normally fix this. aclocal runs fine, autoconf also
runs fine, but automake prints the following errors:

configure.ac:60: required file `./compile' not found
configure.ac:60:   `automake --add-missing' can install `compile'
configure.ac:16: required file `./config.guess' not found
configure.ac:16:   `automake --add-missing' can install `config.guess'
configure.ac:19: required file `./config.rpath' not found
configure.ac:16: required file `./config.sub' not found
configure.ac:16:   `automake --add-missing' can install `config.sub'
configure.ac:11: required file `./install-sh' not found
configure.ac:11:   `automake --add-missing' can install `install-sh'
configure.ac:16: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found
configure.ac:11: required file `./missing' not found
configure.ac:11:   `automake --add-missing' can install `missing'
extra/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
extra/Makefile.am:   `automake --add-missing' can install `depcomp'
util/Makefile.am:191: EXTRA_DIST multiply defined in condition TRUE ...
util/Makefile.am:141: ... `EXTRA_DIST' previously defined here
Makefile.am: required file `./INSTALL' not found
Makefile.am:   `automake --add-missing' can install `INSTALL'
configure.ac:105: required file `config.h.in' not found
configure.ac:101: required file `intl/Makefile.in' not found
configure.ac:19: required file `./ABOUT-NLS' not found
Makefile.am:3: required directory ./intl does not exist


If I copy the missing files/directory from Ubuntu's latest upstart
source package, I can compile everything, but somehow I feel that I'm
doing something wrong? Is the cookbook perhaps missing some additional
steps (aclocal, autoconf, automake and more)? Or is there a particular
branch or tag I should focus on for development, instead of the head
trunk?

Best regards,
David Gaarenstroom