Privoxy configure script fails to find ld in PATH

privoxy 3.0.13-beta src used. If you look at the following output, you can see that configure finds ln because it outputs :

checking whether ln -s works... yes

but it fails to find id but id is in the same path as ln. So is groups.

checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /nix/store/8hp7vcbdlc148wanca5vgkg1ab0rp65h-coreutils-7.2/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for gdb... no
checking for groups... no
checking for id... no
configure: WARNING: There is no user 'privoxy' on this system
checking for user... configure: error: There is no 'id' program on this system

I've already created the privoxy user and group :

id privoxy

results in :

uid=7777(privoxy) gid=100(users) groups=7777(privoxy),100(users)

groups privoxy

privoxy : users privoxy

So "There is no 'id' program on this system" = false. id is on this system. The configure script needs to look in the right place for it.

Could the configure script look for id and groups in the $PATH please?

tonywhite100@googlemail.com