Backport fails when compiling cyrus-sasl2

[Joshua Schaeffer]

Hopefully this is the correct list to be asking this question, if not I'd
appreciate any guidance on who I should email.

I'm trying to see if installing cyrus sasl 2.1.26 will correct a GSSAPI
error I've been experiencing in wheezy, so I'm attempting to backport that
version from jessie.  I've installed devscripts and build-essential and I
was successfully able to download the source (and extract it) with dget.
 I've also installed all the packages that dpkg-checkbuilddeps returned.
 When I run the following command I get an error:

jschaeffer at wheezy_source:~/cyrus-sasl2-2.1.26.dfsg1# *fakeroot debian/rules
binary*
dh binary --with=quilt --with=autotools_dev --with=autoreconf
   dh_testdir
   dh_quilt_patch
File series fully applied, ends at patch 0046_fix_void_return.patch
   dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig
   dh_autoreconf
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
libtoolize: copying file `config/ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in `../cmulocal'.
libtoolize: copying file `../cmulocal/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `../cmulocal/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `../cmulocal/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `../cmulocal/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file `../cmulocal/lt~obsolete.m4'
libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.in and
libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros
in-tree.
configure.in:4: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
dh_autoreconf: autoreconf -f -i ./ saslauthd/ returned exit code 1
make: *** [binary] Error 2

I searched around for this error and one thread said to install pkg-config
which should resolve the problem so I did that but it made no difference, I
get the same error.  I've repeated the same steps in a jessie release and
everything works just fine, so I'm assuming that the version of one (or
more) of my build dependencies also needs to be updated, but I don't know
which one. Other than the thread that stated to install pkg-config I'm not
able to find much information about this error and I've never attempted to
backport anything before so I'm very new to this.  Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Josh
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