> > There is something busted in the snapshots, that leads to a wrong
> > configure file. The file is equal to configure.in (not autoconf'ed).
> > First noticed shortly before Christmas.
>
> Last week I tried to do a "make clean" in some subdirectory that's
> not cleaned by a toplevel clean -- I think it was doc/src/sgml, but it
> might have been a contrib dir -- and make went absolutely nuts.
Sorry, my wording was not well put. The bad configure file is already in the
snapshot tar file, thus something must be broken in the snapshot build process.
Andreas