Sane 1.07 will not configure

I get the following errors when I run ./configure with the sane 1.07 backend package. echo creating rm-f configure_input=Generated: File name too long ./configure: line 42: syntax error near unexpedted token '*)' ./configure: line 42 ' *) ac_comsub= ;;' Can anyone tell me what this means? gcc compiler is 2.95 in Suse 7.3 2.4.17 kernel Art