samba - Sep 2002 - Configure problems in samba 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 on both Irix and sola ris

I've built samba by hand before ,  but I've never seen this message, 
 perhaps you can shed some light.  I suddenly can't  get past the
./configure script.

 ./configure --prefix=/usr/samba --with-winbind --with-automount
 
 gives me the following error:
 
 checking for conflicting AUTH_ERROR define in rpc/rpc.h ... no 
 checking for test routines ... configure: error: can't find test code. 
 Aborting config
 
I tried using both the gnu tools as well as the native compiler,  and I'm
pretty sure my PATH definitions are OK... I haven't changed them since the
last time I successfully configured samba.

I thought my GNU tools might be out of date,  so I updated them on the Irix
system with no change.

Apparently there are many of you out there who are configuring samba
successfully.  Perhaps you have 
Something different in your PATH or LIBRARY PATH definitions that I need to
add?  If you have been able to run the configure successfully, how is your
PATH set up?  Does anyone have any other ideas what might be causing  these
configure errors?  

 
 Any hints or feedback is most appreciated,
 
 Karen Wieprecht
 karen.wieprecht@jhuapl.edu