Reading makefiles...
Updating makefiles....
...

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What's a little weird is that it doesn't seem to actually read/find any makefiles...

With a successful build this looks like 

Reading makefiles...
Reading makefile `Makefile'...
Reading makefile `builds/toplevel.mk' (search path) (no ~ expansion)..
+.
Reading makefile `modules.cfg' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `builds/detect.mk' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `builds/beos/detect.mk' (search path) (no ~ expansion
+)...
Reading makefile `builds/dos/detect.mk' (search path) (no ~ expansion)
+...
Reading makefile `builds/os2/detect.mk' (search path) (no ~ expansion)
+...
Reading makefile `builds/unix/detect.mk' (search path) (no ~ expansion
+)...
Reading makefile `builds/win32/detect.mk' (search path) (no ~ expansio
+n)...
Reading makefile `builds/modules.mk' (search path) (no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/truetype/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (
+no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/type1/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no 
+~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/cff/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ 
+expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/cid/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ 
+expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/pfr/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ 
+expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/type42/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no
+ ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/winfonts/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (
+no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/pcf/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ 
+expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/bdf/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ 
+expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/sfnt/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no ~
+ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/autofit/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (n
+o ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/pshinter/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (
+no ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/raster/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no
+ ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/smooth/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no
+ ~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/cache/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no 
+~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/gzip/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no ~
+ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/lzw/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no ~ 
+expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/psaux/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (no 
+~ expansion)...
Reading makefile `src/psnames/module.mk' (search path) (don't care) (n
+o ~ expansion)...
Updating makefiles....
 Considering target file `src/psnames/module.mk'.
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So, that makes me wonder whether you in fact have those files, with permissions set such that the user in question can read them(?)  When I move away the makefiles (or at least the toplevel Makefile), or make the respective directories unreadable, I do get the exact same error as you...

(Note that those makefiles aren't generated by ./configure (as they often are) — they ship with the sources.)

In reply to Re^5: installing GD::Graph on mac osx 10.4.11 by almut
in thread installing GD::Graph on mac osx 10.4.11 by 7stud

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