Marc Dirix wrote:
Try an older autoconf version.
autoconf 2.13, autoconf 2.59 and autoconf 2.64 from debian packages all produce the same error. Which one do you use?
2.61 seems to do fine.
$ dpkg -l | fgrep autoconf hi autoconf 2.61-8 automatic configure script builder
I had to manually put it on hold in Debian to prevent it from being updated to the latest testing release (which is broken (again)).