makefile.in not found while installing systemC

Question

I'm trying to install SystemC on mac (x86, macOs 13.0.1). I followed the steps described in the docs:

$ cd path/to/systemc-2.3.3
$ mkdir objdir
$ cd objdir
$ export CXX=g++
$ ../configure

But when I run the configure, I have an error cause it says that it cannot found src/makefile.in. Do you have any idea why this happens or just any hint of where to seek for solutions? Here's the complete logs, which seems to be normal until the error :

checking build system type... x86_64-apple-darwin22.1.0
// plenty of checking ...
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
//...
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: error: cannot find input file: `src/Makefile.in'

[EDIT]: Advancement : By running autoconf and automake in source directory, I saw that some stuff were missing, so I runned aclocaland automake --add-missing. I can now run automake in source dir without problems.

Running ../configure now gives me :

$ checking ...
$ ../configure: line 2761: syntax error near unexpected token `1.10'
$ ../configure: line 2761: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(1.10 tar-pax -Werror -Wno-portability no-define subdir-objects foreign)'

Answer 1

I had the same problem with the systemc 2.3.4 on Linux and it turns out that alongside the autotools systemc has cmake build files (CMakeLists.txt).

Instead of using autotools configure, use cmake:

cmake -B build
cmake --build build
# optionally install
cmake --install build --prefix /usr/local/systemc-2.3.4

Answer 2

So I ended up removing the 1.10 in the configure.ac and it worked.