Install autotools in a custom location(If you arent part of the "sudoers")

autotools.sh

myprefix=YOUR_CUSTOM_LOCATION
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.17.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.15.tar.gz
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.6.tar.gz
gzip -dc m4-1.4.17.tar.gz | tar xvf -
gzip -dc autoconf-2.69.tar.gz | tar xvf -
gzip -dc automake-1.15.tar.gz | tar xvf -
gzip -dc libtool-2.4.6.tar.gz | tar xvf -
cd m4-1.4.17
./configure -C --prefix=$myprefix && make && make install
cd ../autoconf-2.69
./configure -C --prefix=$myprefix && make && make install
cd ../automake-1.15
./configure -C --prefix=$myprefix && make && make install
cd ../libtool-2.4.6
./configure -C --prefix=$myprefix && make && make install