Can you try with some well-used autoconf instead of "GNU Autoconf 2.57" and see if whatever is happening is related to the autoconf version?
I checked out a fresh copy of the source tree (as opposed to cvs update'ing my existing tree) and the problems have gone away. I think there were some files lying around from old compiles that were breaking things.
Regards,
Graham
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