Chris is probably right, verify that automake package is installed as well.

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Chris Wilson
<[email protected]<chris%[email protected]>
> wrote:

> Hi Niles,
>
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Niles Collins wrote:
>
> > I am getting the error message:
> >
> > /bin/bash ./config.status --recheck
> > running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure --prefix=/usr
> > --datadir=/usr/share --no-create --no-recursion
> > ./configure: line 1637: syntax error near unexpected token `dist-bzip2'
> > ./configure: line 1637: `AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip)'
> > make: *** [config.status] Error 2
>
> Unfortunately I think the error happened earlier, during the first time
> that you ran configure. I would hazard a wild guess that you don't have
> automake installed, but if installing that (and deleting the extracted
> sources and extracting them again) doesn't fix it, then you could report
> the error to the developers.
>
> Cheers, Chris.
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