Not sure if this will help, but we recently ran into a problem
building MySQL on a Solaris 9 system - the build failed at the
point of trying to make readline because of a missing file
Makefile.in. It turned out that automake wasn't available,
and automake is required to do the make. When we
Description:
make v3.77 (and same with 3.8) aborts with these errors
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/mysql-4.0.20/readline'
rm -f libreadline.a
false cru libreadline.a readline.o funmap.o keymaps.o vi_mode.o parens.o rltty.o
complete.o bind.o isearch.o display.o signals.o util.o