openocd installation hangs on bootstrap

My old HD died, so I’m attempting to put things back together. This is a Debian (lenny)

machine with 2.6.26 kernel… I svn’s the openocd trunk (rev 1433).

Executing the bootstrap, it is hanging (seems to be an infinite loop), with the last line printed:

src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp’

It never terminates, though lots of CPU cycles are consumed.

Am I missing some particular library/function? I compiled this long ago, it used to work…

Thanks for any insight~~!~~
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