> Brent Fulgham says that autoconf is good at identifying the Hurd > if you have a current version. I believe the version I have is the > latest from Debian unstable, which is 2.13. I also have the latest > automake, for what little that may be worth. > 2.13 is the version I am using as well. The difference may be that the things I have been compiling may not make use of some of the headers you need (since they have not generally been network-enabled packages). If you find problems, lets file bugs against autoconf and automake so they get fixed.
One other possible problem is that you are experiencing a subtle file system corruption. I had several cases where seemingly random areas of my hard drive would get trashed. I think things are a bit more stable now, but there may still be bugs in the ext2fs server. For example, after building ncurses, I found that parts of my include directory had been corrupted. After restoring my hurd partition, I built apt a few times (which is heavily C++ oriented) and I lost part of the terminfo database. You might want to re-install some of the packages you are using and see if that helps. The corruption seems to be linked with heavy disk use. -Brent
