gnulib-tool sucked in xmalloc from something else and that failed to build because xalloc-die was missing. This fixed it:
--- xalloc.~1.15.~ Sat Apr 16 22:19:07 2005 +++ xalloc Mon May 9 10:50:13 2005 @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ m4/xalloc.m4 Depends-on: +xalloc-die configure.ac: gl_XALLOC _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib