Freebsd hg build problems continued

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Running this on freebsd:

./configure --prefix=/opt/octave-hg/ --with-blas=/usr/local/lib/libblas.so
--with-lapack=/usr/local/lib/liblapack.so

gives me the following error:

configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: error: cannot find input file: Makefile.in

Does anyone have a work around for this?  

I looked briefly at the port to see if there were likely hints, but I couldn't
fine them.

Tx