automake 1.5 on Mac OS x

[Gerben Wierda]

When trying to configure automake 1.5 I get:

[dumbledore:local/src/automake-1.5] root# ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/usr/local/src/automake-1.5/lib: unmatched ` [7]
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/Automake/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating lib/am/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating m4/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating tests/Makefile
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating automake
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern
creating aclocal
sed: 34: conftest.s1: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern


Automake 1.4 does not present me with problems like this:

[dumbledore:local/src/automake-1.4] root# ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gnutar... gnutar
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
updating cache ./config.cache
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating automake
creating aclocal
creating m4/Makefile
creating tests/Makefile