./gen errors with ebqt

I am just pulled down fresh subversion source.  I am able to compile
eb-lite fine.  But when I try to compile eb-lite, the ./gen errors out
with this:
geoff@geoff:~/src/eb-lite/trunk/ebqt$ ./gen
This Makefile is only for the CVS repository
This will be deleted before making the distribution
 
*** Creating acinclude.m4
!!! If you get recursion errors from autoconf, it is advisable to set
the
    environment variable M4 to something including "--nesting-limit=500"
*** Creating aclocal.m4
*** Creating configure
configure.in:63: error: m4_popdef: undefined macro: AC_Dest
autoconf/status.m4:848: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from...
configure.in:63: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
make[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2


I am using 
GNU m4 1.4
automake (GNU automake) 1.7.9, I was using 1.8.2 but that seemed to be
causing a lot of scrolling warnings.
This is all on current debian sid.