Cannot build automake 1.7 on Solaris 7

[Daniel . Jaime]

Hi,

since a couple of month I haven't been able to build or even to configure
some GNU tools on a Solaris 7 Workstation, among them automake 1.7. For
better documentation I appended the logs of configuration and building to
this mail.

With automake 1.5 I hadn't any problem at all

I will investigate the problem, which I don't expect to be in my
environment, and let you know if I could solve it. However, since I don't
have to much spare time, this may last long. On the other side, if you find
a solution, please give me a notice.

If you need any further information, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards

Daniel Jaime

Configuring:

configuring automake-1.7
mkdir /usr/local/freeware/objects/automake-1.7 2>&1
/usr/local/freeware/sources/automake-1.7/configure 
--srcdir=/usr/local/freeware/sources/automake-1.7 --verbose 
--prefix=/usr/local/gnu 2>&1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... 
/usr/local/freeware/sources/automake-1.7/lib/install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/local/gnu/bin/perl
checking for tex... no
checking whether ln works... yes
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for fgrep... grep -F
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Automake/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/am/Makefile
config.status: creating m4/Makefile
config.status: creating m4/amversion.m4
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/defs

Building:

building automake-1.7
/usr/local/gnu/bin/make -C /usr/local/freeware/objects/automake-1.7 2>&1
make: Entering directory `/usr/local/freeware/objects/automake-1.7'
cd . && /bin/ksh ./config.status Makefile
./config.status[253]: CONFIG_FILES: parameter not set
./config.status[353]: ac_config_targets: parameter not set
make: *** [Makefile] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/usr/local/freeware/objects/automake-1.7'
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