Pull request #1 breaks compilation

[aseques]

I am trying to compile the code, I guess something is broken since the pull request that updated autotools.
I am on ubuntu 15.10 with autoconf version 2.69-8

$ ./autogen.sh 
+ autoreconf -ivf
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force --install -I m4
aclocal: installing 'm4/gettext.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/iconv.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/iconv.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/intlmacosx.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/intlmacosx.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/lib-ld.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/lib-ld.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/lib-link.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/lib-link.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/lib-prefix.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/lib-prefix.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/nls.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/nls.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/po.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/po.m4'
aclocal: installing 'm4/progtest.m4' from '/usr/share/aclocal/progtest.m4'
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
configure.ac:5: installing './compile'
configure.ac:16: installing './config.guess'
configure.ac:16: installing './config.sub'
configure.ac:6: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:6: installing './missing'
configure.ac:55: error: required file 'po/Makefile.in' not found
src/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

When using the code from 522fedb, it does compile without issues, everything is working fine (altought not using autotools)