Why does configure fail?
• You have an old (broken/incomplete) config.cache (config.status) file left over. Delete those! Or if you have a recent set of the auto* tools installed (See INSTALL.html) run the CVSMake script, and then configure again. • configure (and the generated Makefiles) won’t work if the build directory resides in a path which has embedded blanks, e.g. “/usr/work/Fine Software”. The simple and only solution is to move it to another path. • If you get some strange results also check whether you have some strange settings in the environment which may cause those. Some related variables are CC, CFLAGS, LIBS, …