Github user phunt commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/zookeeper/pull/528
Seems like it breaks ubuntu 14.04 (not sure what else, that's what I
tried). This is working fine w/o the patch:
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./configure
checking for doxygen... no
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for dot... no
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
./configure: line 5034: syntax error near unexpected token `CPPUNIT,'
./configure: line 5034: ` PKG_CHECK_MODULES_STATIC(CPPUNIT, cppunit >=
1.10.2)'
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