broken configure, broken makefile?

running vanilla configure, i see the following toward the end, and my makefile
is incomplete as well:

checking alignment of int... (cached) 4
checking alignment of long... (cached) 4
checking alignment of long long int... (cached) 4
checking alignment of double... (cached) 4
checking for POSIX signal interface... yes
checking for tclsh... (cached) /usr/bin/tclsh
creating ./config.status
creating GNUmakefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating Makefile.global
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating backend/port/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating backend/catalog/genbki.sh
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating backend/utils/Gen_fmgrtab.sh
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating bin/pg_dump/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating bin/pg_version/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating bin/pgtclsh/mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating bin/pgtclsh/mkMakefile.tkdefs.sh
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating bin/psql/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating include/version.h
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating interfaces/libpq/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating interfaces/ecpg/lib/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating interfaces/ecpg/preproc/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating interfaces/libpq++/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating interfaces/libpgeasy/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating interfaces/libpgtcl/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating interfaces/odbc/GNUmakefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating interfaces/odbc/Makefile.global
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating pl/plpgsql/src/Makefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating pl/plpgsql/src/mklang.sql
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating pl/tcl/mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating test/regress/GNUmakefile
sed: file conftest.s1 line 35: Unterminated `s' command
creating include/config.h
include/config.h is unchanged
linking ./backend/port/dynloader/linux.c to backend/port/dynloader.c
linking ./backend/port/dynloader/linux.h to include/dynloader.h
linking ./include/port/linux.h to include/os.h
linking ./makefiles/Makefile.linux to Makefile.port
linking ./backend/port/tas/dummy.s to backend/port/tas.s
linking ./include/port to interfaces/odbc/port
linking ./makefiles to interfaces/odbc/makefiles
linking ./template to interfaces/odbc/template
linking ./include/config.h to interfaces/odbc/config.h

I couldnt seem to find a conftest.s1 file nor the sed command being called,
can someone point me in the right direction?

oh... this is compiling 7.0.3 on slackware 10.1, lmk if you need more info.
TIA

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Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL