rsync 2.6.0: ./configure goes into a loop

[Phil Howard]

After doing a fresh extraction of the source for 2.6.0, I execute ./configure
and it enters a loop with no output before or during.  I let run 20 minutes
just to see if it would ever do anything and it did nothing else.

Host system has:
Linux:		2.4.23
Slakcware:	9.0
bash:		2.05b.0
gcc:		3.2.2
glibc:		2.3.1

I have a big (huge) strace of it here:
    http://phil.ipal.org/rsync-configure-loop.strace.bz2
    http://phil.ipal.org/rsync-configure-loop-1000.strace.bz2

The one with 1000 is just the first 1000 lines of the strace.

Ideas?

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