Execute automake from eclipse autotools plugin

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I recently installed the autotools plugin for eclipse. I made the Makefile.am for each source subdirectory. I also included the AM_INIT_MAKEFILE macro in the configure.ac file. The plugin DOES use autoreconf -i. The problem is that I get an error anytime I try to build that says,
config.status: error: cannot find input file: 'Makefile.in'
Which indicates that automake was never ran. Any ideas?

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ceclipseautotools
The typical command line tool used to regenerate the Autotools-managed files is invoked as autoreconf -i. Maybe you can find something related to that in the GUI? (I'm not familiar with the plugin.) – dennycrane
The plugin DOES use autoreconf -i. – Mohit Deshpande

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I made a beginner's mistake. I didn't add the extra files automake needs to actually function and make the Makefile.in. Also to run any autotool (aclocal, automake, autoheader, etc.) go to Project->Invoke Autotools->Invoke (name of autotool)