502$ ./configure && make --(configure output removed) autoconf -o configure.sh Usage: autoconf [-h] [--help] [-m dir] [--macrodir=dir] [-l dir] [--localdir=dir] [--version] [template-file] make: *** [configure.sh] Error 1 a second machine with more 5.0.6a patches results in $ make autoconf -o configure.sh configure.in:6: error: Autoconf version 2.59 or higher is required configure.in:6: the top level autom4te: /usr/gnu/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1 make: *** [configure.sh] Error 1 -------- make install similarly fails as above. "./configure && make rsync" works fine although a manual install is required.
I believe you're referring to the 3.0.0pre6 release. The tar file was created with slightly askew timestamps. The work-around is to touch configure.sh and config.h.in anytime after extracting the files from the tar file. The release script was fixed to avoid this in the future.