Version 2.7.1 produces a shell error trying to execute "cut" due to incorrectly nested quotes introduced in commit 0757a9f8764ef599842127af994bb6ca4c69401b. Problematic line inbuild/find_pcre.m4 is: PCRE_LD_PATH="/`${PCRE_CONFIG} --libs | cut -d"/" -f2,3,4,5,6 | cut -d " " -f1`" Correct would be: PCRE_LD_PATH="/`${PCRE_CONFIG} --libs | cut -d'/' -f2,3,4,5,6 | cut -d ' ' -f1`" (Change from >"< to >'< when quoting the cut delimiters. Otherwise the quotes around the single space are actually terminating the backquote and the shell tries to execute the command "-f1".