build under ubuntu-xenial (16.04) fails

[gmlevin]

The process works through ./configure, then fails on the make. Looks like automake is hardcoded to 1.14 in the configuration and xenial has 1.15.1 installed. Any suggestions for workarounds?

RUN  cd /tmp                                           \
&& git clone https://github.com/protobuf-c/protobuf-c-text.git  \
&& cd protobuf-c-text                               \
&& git checkout  master                             \
&& apt-get -y install                               \
        re2c                                        \
        check                                       \
&& ./configure                                      \
&& make && make install                             \
...
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash /tmp/protobuf-c-text/build-aux/missing aclocal-1.14 -I m4 --install
/tmp/protobuf-c-text/build-aux/missing: line 81: aclocal-1.14: command not found
WARNING: 'aclocal-1.14' is missing on your system.
         You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
         'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
         The 'aclocal' program is part of the GNU Automake package:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/automake>
         It also requires GNU Autoconf, GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf>
         <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
         <http://www.perl.org/>
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 127
Makefile:814: recipe for target 'aclocal.m4' failed