ncurses-devel Compile Problem

[Steve Kozakoff]

I am trying to compile the "test" applications for ncurses on RHEL 3,
but not having much luck.
 
The system is:
 
RHEL ES 3 (100% stock and up2dated)
ncurses 5.3
automake 1.6.3
 
When I run automake from "/usr/share/doc/ncurses-devel-5.3/test/" I
get
 

$ automake
configure.in:43: `automake requires `AM_CONFIG_HEADER', not
`AC_CONFIG_HEADER'
automake: configure.in: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE' must be used
automake: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
automake: old Automake version.  You should recreate aclocal.m4
automake: with aclocal and run automake again.
configure.in: required file `./install-sh' not found
configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
configure.in: required file `./missing' not found
automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified
 
Any ideas? Am I missing something?
 
-Steve