Install cufflinks: configure.ac:123: error: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE expanded multiple times when run ./configure

[Gina123e]

Firstlt, I downloaded cufflinks from gitghub.
Then, I run this:
cd cufflinks ; autoreconf --install
But it showed:
configure.ac:123: error: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE expanded multiple times \
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...\
configure.ac:17: the top level \
/usr/share/aclocal-1.16/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from... \
configure.ac:123: the top level
autom4te: error: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

So How to solve this problem

[boegel]

I fixed this problem with a simple patch that remove the first AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in configure.ac before calling autoreconf, see also the patch file in https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/21489/files