installing egcs-1.1

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < m067f0mloj.fsf@ate.maierh >you write:
  > 
  > Hello all,
  > 
  > here a __minor__ problem that ocurrs then I installed egcs-1.1 on my
  > Linux box.
  > 
  > Harald Maier
  > 
  > ./configure 
  > Configuring for a i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1 host.
  > Created "Makefile" in /vol2/build/egcs-1.1b
  > ./config.status is unchanged
  > texhash: fatal error: directory '$(datadir)/texmf' not found.
  > Please check your setup.
  > warning: $(datadir)/texmf: Unrecognized variable construct `$('.
  > warning: $(datadir)/texmf: Unrecognized variable construct `$('.
  > kpsetool: language.dat not found.
  > warning: $(datadir)/texmf: Unrecognized variable construct `$('.
  > warning: $(datadir)/texmf: Unrecognized variable construct `$('.
  > kpsetool: modes.mf not found.
  > warning: $(datadir)/texmf: Unrecognized variable construct `$('.
  > ./configure: datadir: command not found
  > Links are now set up to build a native compiler for i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
Never seen anyone report anything like this.  Any chance you could
dive down into the texinfo directory & see what's going on?

jeff