beer@erde:~/Transmission$ ./configure 
./configure: line 1742: syntax error near unexpected token `1.9'
./configure: line 1742: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.9 tar-ustar)'
beer@erde:~/Transmission$ ./autogen.sh 
configure.ac:10: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:11: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
configure.ac:88: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
configure.ac:96: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT
configure.ac:105: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_OPTIONS_WXCONFIG
configure.ac:106: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PATH_WXCONFIG
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
Creating aclocal.m4 ...
Running glib-gettextize...  Ignore non-fatal messages.
Copying file mkinstalldirs
Copying file po/Makefile.in.in

Please add the files
  codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
  progtest.m4
from the /aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

Making aclocal.m4 writable ...
Running intltoolize...