92 tests fail on 1.16j Thanks for trying, though a sad result. I have a hunch that a lot of the failures are timing issues. Although Automake thinks your system "should" work with a 1-millisecond sleep at various points (I gather you're already using autoconf-2.72), maybe there are problems in practice.
If you're up for it, please try setting this variable in the environment am_cv_sleep_fractional_seconds=false export am_cv_sleep_fractional_seconds (Bourne-compatible shell syntax, if you're using a C shell, I assume you know what to do. :) And then make distclean (to remove the leftovers) and the same configure && etc. That's my only immediate idea ... --thanks again, karl.