After everything, I get to the last steps and:
./configure: line 5901: syntax error near unexpected token `,'
./configure: line 5901: `LIBCURL_CHECK_CONFIG(, 7.10.1, ,'
you need libcurl.m4 placed in a pkg-config folder somewhere.
Thank you for setting me on the right path. In case anyone else is having this problem, this is how I solved it:
I found
hangover's helpful post which mentioned the following steps:
cp /usr/local/share/doc/curl/libcurl/libcurl.m4 m4
Then add string "ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4" to file Makefile.am and edit file autogen.sh - replace string "aclocal" with "aclocal -I m4".
Before I could do this, I had to do the following:
apt-get install libcurl3-dev curl-dev
apt-get install locate
updatedb
locate libcurl.m4
This showed me where libcurl.m4 was. Then I could copy it to the m4 directory, and the rest is history.