eb-lite-alpha-9 fails to install

Using FreeBSD 4.8...

gen
libtoolize: `configure.in' does not exist
Try `libtoolize --help' for more information.
configure.ac:5: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or
m4_bpatsubst
configure.ac:157: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
autoheader: `config.h.in' is updated
automake: Makefile.am: required file `./NEWS' not found
automake: configure.ac: installing `./depcomp'

configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/tmp/eb-lite-alpha-9/core/missing: Unknown `--run' option
Try `/tmp/eb-lite-alpha-9/core/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... no
checking for nawk... nawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of g++... gcc
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc
checking build system type... i386-unknown-freebsd4.8
checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd4.8
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/libexec/elf/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/libexec/elf/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
./ltconfig: ./ltconfig: No such file or directory
configure: error: libtool configure failed

make
cd . && autoheader
autoheader: `config.h.in' is unchanged
cd .  && CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h  /usr/local/bin/bash
./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing default-1 commands
make  all-recursive
Making all in plugins
Making all in msn
"Makefile", line 274: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
*** Error code 1

Stop in /tmp/eb-lite-alpha-9/core/plugins.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /tmp/eb-lite-alpha-9/core.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /tmp/eb-lite-alpha-9/core.