Problems building 1.8

I’m trying to build the latest CVS version of 1.8 (checked out about
14:45 EST) on my web host. When I’m dealing with the preview
versions, everything works just fine. When I have to run autoconf, I
can never get configure to run. In particular, I get:

% autoconf
% configure --prefix= # is my appropriate directory
configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh ./config.sub

I’m using autoconf 2.54; is this correct? I’m not sure where this
error comes from or why it shows up for CVS versions (where I have to
run autoconf) as opposed to the previews or releases (where I don’t).

-austin
– Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.04.06 at 14:51:10