[yocto] populate_sdk fails almost immediately

[Michael Habibi]

I decided to built the SDK to play around with the output so I can
understand how it all goes together. According to the documentation, I
simply do:

bitbake <image> -c populate_sdk

It's worth noting I am running a custom image and distro and not a
poky/yocto image (I do inherit core-image, however). I don't spot any
critical differences between core-image-minimal and my custom image. My
distro conf includes poky.conf to pull in most of the configuration.
However, the first thing I get is this:

DEBUG: Executing python function sysroot_cleansstate
DEBUG: Python function sysroot_cleansstate finished
DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-little', 'common-linux', 'common-glibc',
'bit-64', 'x86_64-linux', 'common']
DEBUG: Executing shell function autotools_preconfigure
DEBUG: Shell function autotools_preconfigure finished
DEBUG: Executing python function autotools_copy_aclocals
DEBUG: SITE files ['endian-little', 'common-linux', 'common-glibc',
'bit-64', 'x86_64-linux', 'common']
DEBUG: Python function autotools_copy_aclocals finished
DEBUG: Executing shell function do_configure
configure.ac:34: error: Please use exactly Autoconf 2.64 instead of 2.69.
config/override.m4:12: _GCC_AUTOCONF_VERSION_CHECK is expanded from...
configure.ac:34: the top level

for the binutils-crosssdk do_configure task. Am I doing something insane? I
figure since my image build is working correctly, it should be using the
right versions of autoconf, etc.
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