It seems that running autoreconf causes the build process to fail. I downloaded KTorrent 2.0.3 and did the following:

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 $ autoreconf
 $ ./configure
 $ make

(...)

if /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I./../../libktorrent -I/opt/kde3/include -I/usr/lib/qt3/include -I/usr/X11R6/include   -DQT_THREAD_SUPPORT  -D_REENTRANT  -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -O2 -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQT_NO_ASCII_CAST -DQT_NO_STL -DQT_NO_COMPAT -DQT_NO_TRANSLATION -fexceptions  -MT httprequest.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/httprequest.Tpo" -c -o httprequest.lo httprequest.cpp; \
then mv -f ".deps/httprequest.Tpo" ".deps/httprequest.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/httprequest.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
httprequest.cpp:119:27: httprequest.moc: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [httprequest.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/uauser/ktorrent-2.0.3/libktorrent/util'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/uauser/ktorrent-2.0.3/libktorrent'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/uauser/ktorrent-2.0.3'
make: *** [all] Error 2


The reason I need to run autoreconf is because I need to change configure.in. For a student project we were instructed to enhance KTorrent with zeroconf functionality, so I need to link it with the Avahi library. But it seems that even running autoreconf on the standard KTorrent 2.0.3 doesn't work. Anybody who knows why this error occurs?

I have reduced the failure to something that doesn't use autoreconf:

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 (start from the default KTorrent 2.0.3 codebase)
 $ aclocal
 $ automake
 $ ./configure
 $ make


This produces the same error.

I have discovered this because running automake without first running aclocal gave a warning message saying that on this system automake-1.6 was not present and that I needed to run aclocal first and then automake. The automake version here is 1.9.5.
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The problem seems to be solved now. I discovered that I needed to run am_edit after I did automake. It was the first time I used autotools and the first time I needed to mess with the sources of a KDE app. I have learned a few things now.

OK, nice to hear that KTorrent is used as an educational project.