I copied over the configure file from the 1.4 tar.gz file, and that
seemed to work fine.
In any case, you may want to update that.
> I just downloaded the latest SVN code for xar to see if the latest
> version worked around some of the issues in the official 1.4 release.
> The source unfortunately was missing a "configure" file, which put a
> crimp in my installation plans.
Just run autoconf on the configure.ac file. It doesn't really make
sense to store generated files in a revision control system.
-Will
Rob