newbie install problems - help!

[HAYESE]

I've be trying to install cfengine-2.1.14 on an Sun Solaris8 server, and
I'm getting configure/make errors as follows:

1) many errs in config.log ---> concerning "ld: fatal: Symbol referencing
errors. No output written to conftest"
2) many errs in config.status ---> { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot
find myself; rerun with an absolute path" >&5
echo "$as_me: error: cannot find myself; rerun with an absolute path" >&2;}
    { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot create $as_me.lineno; rerun
with a POSIX shell" >&5

Ref - these package installed successfully:

      * Solaris 5.8 Generic_117350-02
      * Berkeley DB 3.2.9
      * OpenSSL 0.9.7
      * Perl 5.8.7