#1 unexpected token `yes:no' during ./config

[Anony Mouse]

Some background -
automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p5
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.52d
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1
2.96-85)

Present in both waimea-0.1.3 and waimea-0.1.4.

When doing a './configure --prefix=/some/path' -

checking for XShapeCombineShape in -lXext... yes
checking for X11/extensions/shape.h... yes
./configure: line 4347: syntax error near
unexpected token `yes:no'
./configure: line 4347: ` yes:no'
make: *** [config.status] Error 2

It's probably specific to my version of
automake|autoconf, but if there's a fix for the
./configure script, that would be great.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.