configure issue using SCO Open Server Rel 5

[jmb2]

Hello,

I am have my source in:
/u/Image/ImageMagic-6.5.0-2

I am in this directory as super user.
./configure CC=cc --without-perl

I get
.configure[1225] : is not an identifier.

(I don't have gcc, I have cc command to run C programs.)
I don't plan on using Perl with this, so I figure I don't need this.
(I have tried ./configure CXX=cc --without-perl)
I have make and ld.

I put in echo's to see where in configure it is stopping.

Line 1224: SHELL'
Line 1225: ac_subst_files=''
Line 1226: ac_user_opts='

It starts at the top, 3 different times, and finally bombs at this point.

my ulimit is: 2097151

Any help to point me in the right direction would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[magick]

The configure scripts are generated from the GNU automake / autoconf / libtool programs. Its is likely that there is a bug in these programs and the best path forward would be to post this problem as a bug report to the autoconf maintainers.